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Senua Studio is named for the lead character in Hellblade, which uses innovative performance capture to instantly render in-game scenes
Read More »Pixar’s six tips for telling better stories in games
Toy Story and Monsters Inc story writer Matthew Luhn shared his advice from more than two decades at the film studio with devs at GDC Europe
Read More »Study finds number of sexualised female characters has fallen ‘significantly’ in the last decade
Look at portrayal of women in games over the last 31 years reveals spike in sexualised protagonists in the 1990s following release of Tomb Raider
Read More »Faceware opens Interactive division focused on real-time interactive mo-cap
New arm of middleware firm will concentrate on producing digital ‘puppets’ which can react to humans instantly
Read More »Rumble Roses character designer Shiro Kotobuki has passed away
Japanese artist was left paralyzed from the neck down after a road accident in his twenties
Read More »Maxis removes ‘gender boundaries’ from The Sims 4
‘We want to make sure players can create characters they can identify with or relate to,’ developer explains
Read More »Sunset Overdrive has a dig at Ubisoft with Assassin’s Creed-themed female avatar
Insomniac has confirmed that gamers will be able to play as a female in Xbox One exclusive Sunset Overdrive. And furthermore, the developer has had a little dig at Ubisoft in the process, which of course came under heavy fire for the exclusion of female characters in Assassin’s Creed: Unity …
Read More »Ubisoft promises more character diversity in future titles
Future games from publisher Ubisoft will showcase a greater diversity of lead characters, the company’s CEO has pledged. "We are working on that," Yves Guillemot told CVG. "We want to spend more time on the worlds and characters in our games. You will see more and more of this at …
Read More »Far Cry 4 playable female character dropped due to workload
Another Ubisoft game has found itself embroiled in a gender equality debate. Far Cry 4 director Alex Hutchinson has said that the shooter was inches away” from offering a playable female co-op character – although the feature was ultimately dropped because of workload pressures. It all harks back to the …
Read More »Free downloadable Pokemon game announced; Championships character giveaway confirmed
A free Pokemon game called The Band of Thieves & 1000 Pokemon is on the way to 3DS. Eurogamer reports that the game, which thus far is only confirmed for Japan, allows users to collect sticker shaped versions of Pokemon via Streetpassing with others before taking the beats into battle. …
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