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"It is very painful to hear these stories," says HR rep
Read More »Microsoft says it ‘must do better’ as it investigates sexual harassment claims
Rod Fergusson reveals why Epic dropped a female co-op character from Gears of War
‘It’s not a free choice,’ says The Coalition studio director, citing technical hurdles such as the amount of dialogue required
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 »Co-operative multiplayer more appealing than competitive modes, research finds
Quantic Foundry survey of over 1,000 players also discovers that co-op is equally popular between genders, while men prefer to face off against each other
Read More »EA opens doors to Girls Who Code for second year
20 10th- and 11th-grade students will be taught to program in Scratch and Python, as well as learning AI and UX design
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 »Naughty Dog: We set out to introduce strong female characters to Uncharted 4
'When I'm describing a new character to our lead character concept artist, constantly she will ask: ‘What if it was a girl?’' recalls creative director Neil Druckmann. 'And I'm like: 'Let me think, does that affect or change anything? No? Let's do it''
Read More »Amilia St. John blasts father’s ‘toxic waste trash fire’ views on female game devs
‘By propagating this offensive ideology, he is feeding the fire for the dull brained Neanderthals in the industry who actually are anti-women to continue propagating these practices’
Read More »Rust devs make player gender random – and permanent
‘We understand that you may now be a gender that you don’t identify with in real-life. Technically nothing has changed, since half the population was already living with those feelings.’
Read More »Rust now assigns character gender based on Steam user ID
As previously touted by its creator Garry Newman, PC Early Access hit Rust has started automatically choosing a player’s character gender according to an algorithm based on their Steam ID. We understand this is a sore subject for a lot of people. We understand that you may now be a …
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