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Category Archives: Video Games

Jun 14, 2019Nov 18, 2020

Gender Breakdown of Games Featured at E3 2019

2019 represents our fifth year doing a statistical breakdown of the games featured at E3, and analyzing what the data tells us about the representation of women in video games. This year, we ran the […]

Dec 27, 2018Dec 27, 2018

Carolyn’s Top Five Games of 2018

Each year, the barrage of game releases feels bigger and more unmanageable than the last. In some ways, I suppose that’s a good problem to have, but it does mean that there are some much-talked-about […]

Aug 08, 2018

Presenting the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games Curriculum!

The Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series has had a tremendous impact on the ways in which our culture thinks about and talks about video games, and the links between the values expressed in […]

Jun 14, 2018Jun 14, 2018

Gender Breakdown of Games Featured at E3 2018

For the fourth year in a row, we’ve made our data-gathering excursion into each of the major E3 press conferences to see if things are actually getting better in terms of female representation; to identify […]

Mar 30, 2018Nov 18, 2020

The Past, the Present, and the Absent: Reflections on GDC 2018

There’s a young queer Asian woman who works at the coffee stand up the street from my apartment, let’s call her Lou, and sometimes when I swing by for a morning cup, she and I […]

Feb 22, 2018Nov 18, 2020

A Splash of Color: The Quietly Feminist Love Story of Florence

The tender new iOS game Florence is, yes, the sort of game I tend to champion, the sort of art that feels particularly crucial and nourishing in this period of intensified violence, cruelty, and dehumanization. […]

Feb 01, 2018Nov 18, 2020

The Power of a Positive Tweet

I recently had the pleasure of visiting BioWare’s Edmonton office, where I met and had tea with a group of fantastic women who work there, and with a few male allies, too. However, when I […]

Dec 22, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Carolyn’s Fave Five: Games in 2017

It’s no secret that I put a premium on compassion and humanity in games and really, in all art, but if ever I felt a particular need for art that said something about hope, friendship, […]

Dec 19, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Ebony’s 2017 Comfort Blankets

For what it’s worth (quite a lot, actually), there were moments of solace and triumph in the largely fetid swamp of 2017. For my money, 99% of those moments were born from the work, passion, […]

Nov 08, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Peach’s Tiny Taste of Freedom: Gender in Super Mario Odyssey

SPOILERS: Super Mario Odyssey’s climax sees our hero Mario, who has made a 30-plus-year career out of rescuing Princess Peach, once again doing battle with Bowser to save her from his vile clutches. Okay, okay, […]

Sep 12, 2017Nov 18, 2020

UK Conference Inducts Anita Into European Women in Games Hall of Fame

Anita delivered the keynote address at the 2017 Women in Games Conference at the East London Arts and Music Academy on September 6th. Women in Games is a non-profit, games industry diversity organization, and their […]

Aug 30, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Facing the Darkness Within: The Importance of Acting in Observer and Hellblade

Acting matters, but some acting matters more than others. The 2013 film Locke, for instance, takes place entirely in a single car, being driven by a single man, played by Tom Hardy. His performance absolutely […]

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