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‘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 »Gamer audience gender split equal on PC and mobile, male-dominant on console
Console skews to youngest audience, while PC reaches over 45s and mobile spans the widest age range
Read More »‘To make games the most powerful artform, don’t freak out about dick jokes’
Indie dev Robert Yang critiques apparent fear of games to address sexual topics
Read More »How would you describe the average British gamer?
Gamers? Ha! A bunch of overweight, spotty boys cooped up in their rooms because they’re too socially awkward to step outside, right? Wrong. So very, very wrong. CVG has word of a new survey from gaming social network Pixwoo that finds that the average British gamer is as follows: They’re …
Read More »Naughty Dog apologises for sex chat line numbers in The Last of Us
There are many hidden delights in The Last of Us, but one of them won’t be there for much longer. At one point in the game co-star Joel encounters a notice board with two phone numbers for a ‘pest control’ service. A Kotaku reader thought he’d give them a ring… …
Read More »94% of Brits would sooner do without sex than their mobiles
A stonking 94 per cent of young UK adults have admitted that they would rather live without sex for a week than spend seven days away from their mobile phone, according to a new poll from MobileInsurance.co.uk. The survey polled 2,571 UK adults aged between 18 and 30; all of …
Read More »Game design contest offers $35k for safe sex title
Games for Change looks to promote safe sex with its first‐ever public design competition
Read More »Operation: Game Over closes 2,100 online gaming accounts owned by sex offenders
A New York initiative called Operation: Game Over has closed 2,100 online gaming accounts associated with known sex offenders living in New York. Publishers such as Sony, NCsoft, FunCom, THQ and Gaia Online have participated in the scheme. The drive has been made possible thanks to New York’s Electronic Securing …
Read More »Female gamers are 4x more likely to be harassed online than men
The sad truth of sexism amongst on line gamers has been laid bare by a new report. A study published on PriceCharting, which surveyed over 800 online gamers, says that 63.3 per cent of all female participants had been taunted or harassed while playing online. Common slurs included ‘c*nt’, ‘bitch’, …
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