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Article updated: 2/1/2013 2:27 PM

Women in combat may lead the charge of new video games

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Women soldiers are featured in a scene from the video game, "Gears of War: Judgment."

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While video games aren’t totally devoid of strong female protagonists, the interactive medium has typically only cast ladies in support roles when it comes to such popular military shoot-’em-up franchises as “Call of Duty” and “Battlefield.” Yet could the recent announcement that the Pentagon is ending its long-standing ban on women serving in combat roles in real-world battlegrounds extend to virtual ones, too?
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