Tag Archives: equality
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
A Threat Against Sarkeesian Should Be Seen as A Threat To The Entire Gaming Community
This week Anita Sarkeesian cancelled a speech at Utah College after the school received a threat of a mass shooting if Sarkeesian was allowed to speak. The school decided to go ahead with the speech after consulting law enforcement officials, but … 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
Fans Disappointed With Ubisoft’s Lack of Gender Choices in Upcoming Assassin’s Creed Unity
Fans Disappointed With Ubisoft’s Lack of Gender Choices in Upcoming Assassin’s Creed Unity It’s been a fun week of demos, conferences, and mostly announcements for First Person Shooters. Between announcing games in which people shoot each others’ heads off, Ubisoft … Continue reading
Update: Nintendo Reaffirms Stance on Same-Sex Relationships in Tomodachi Life
Last year Nintendo responded to a glitch found in their popular Japanese 3ds Title “Tomodachi Collection” that allowed players to enter into same-sex relationships with a patch. We discussed the issue a bit on here and it was admittedly … Continue reading
Wired – Nintendo’s New Key To Creativity: More Women
http://www.wired.com/2014/03/animal-crossing-director/?mbid=social_fb Wired has a new article this weekend about Nintendo’s new strategy for creativity in their development process: adding more women to their development teams. The article notes the success of Animal Crossing New Leaf, which has been an all … Continue reading
