I would be more likely to play a game called "Ms. Gears of War" than "Gears of War."

And more likely to play any game with interesting characters than anything more about space marines or elves, male or female. I agree that the problem is that everything is pitched at adolescent male fantasy. Frankly, it's less embarrassing when bad adolescent male writers write male characters than when they try to write women.

I would rather play the video game equivalent of "Winter's Bone" than, say, "Inception." One of these days the technology will be cheap enough.

But you're wrong about GLaDOS: she's clearly written as a passive-aggressive, smothering mother (e.g., "the only thing you've managed to break so far is my heart," or "we've both said a lot of things you're going to regret").