See Games Differently
See Games Differently
Women And Video Games
Minutes after I walked through a metal detector — and some time before she was flocked by well-wishers at the best-attended gaming lecture I’ve ever been to at New York University — I recently listened to the media critic Anita Sarkeesian describe eight things she’d like to see changed in…
An anonymous e-mailer threatened to blow up a bomb at the Game Developers Choice Awards this past March unless the hosts rescinded an award recognising feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian, the organisers of the event have confirmed to Kotaku.
There is no great suffrage movement to credit for finally enabling players of the world’s most popular first-person shooter to kill each other as female soldiers. For better or worse, that’s not how these things tend to happen in video games. Certainly not this time.
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