‘Virtual bodies exist beyond the visual scene and have many functions other than that of eye candy or other spectacle. With the prevalence of games designed in the first-person perspective, for example, the avatar body is frequently invisible, haunting the screen with trace reminders such as hands or reflections… Moreover, unlike the mythological avatar, who serves as a docile vessel for possession, there is much about the gamic avatar that constricts and directs the gamer’s and camera’s behavior. We need a more nuanced account of how video games complicate our understanding of the relation between feminine bodies and the gaze in order to move forward with a feminist game studies praxis that more aptly responds to gaming in its current state and recognizes new political possibilities within popular texts” (p. 104).