Category Archives: equality
New Project: Bootleg Consoles and Regional Gaming Identities
I wanted to share an area of research I’m currently engaged with, particularly looking at what are typically referred to as Bootleg Consoles as meaningful social artifacts that make up regional gaming identities. Broadly, the term bootleg console can be … Continue reading
AnyKey’s Good Luck Have Fun Pledge
This past week AnyKey, an advocacy group that promotes diversity and inclusion in gaming, relaunched their Good Luck Have Fun Pledge. I had the pleasure of representing the organization at TwitchCon 2019 in San Diego this past weekend. I … Continue reading
BBC’s The Women Challenging Sexism in E-Sports
A quick one to share today: Apart of their 100 Women of 2016 series, a series of videos and articles about influential women in varying industries, the BBC has put together a video and accompanying piece about women in the … Continue reading
Voice Actors Are Striking: Why You Should Care
For the last couple of weeks SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents many voice actors in the video games industry, have been picketing and striking outside of major video game developers and tomorrow, Nov.17th, they plan to picket Insomniac Games in … Continue reading
Capcom Investing In Benefits To Keep Female Employees
Really Quick one today: Japanese game developers have traditionally been slow towards creating more diverse work staffs, which makes Capcom’s announcement that they’ll be investing in medical benefits to encourage employees with children to stay with the company. In their … Continue reading
Vice’s “The Invisible People: Why Asians Need to Be Better Represented in Video Games”
Vice News posted an article by Khai Trung Le entitled “The Invisible People: Why Asians Need to Be Better Represented in Video Games” that discusses the the lack or representation and misrepresentation of Asians in video games. It’s an interesting … Continue reading
An/Other: A Game That Simulates Everyday Racism
Video Game designer Jordan Sparks has created a game that simulates what it’s like to be black living in Toronto, Canada. The game “An/Other” is Spark’s attempt to demonstrate how racism is embedded in society through the interactive medium of … Continue reading
Racist Games: Street Fighter 2
It’s time once again to look through the library of video games and examine some of the good ol’ fun themes of racism in some of our favorite and least favorite games. Today’s racist game is one of the most … Continue reading
Polygon’s “No Skin Thick Enough:The daily harassment of women in the game industry”
No Skin Thick Enough Today Polygon posted this piece on their site. It’s an piece about the myths and realities of harassment against women in the video game industry by Brianna Wu. It features the real life experiences of several … Continue reading
New Tropes VS. Women In Gaming Video: Women as Background Decoration Part 1
Anita Sarkeesian has released a new installment in her Tropes Vs. Women in Gaming video series that explores women as decorative objects in gaming. Her videos tend to be controversial amongst the gaming community, but I think she does great work to … Continue reading
