women and video games
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Bomb Threat Targeted Anita Sarkeesian, Gaming Awards Last March
54An anonymous e-mailer threatened to blow up a bomb at the Game Developers Choice Awards this past March unless the hosts rescinded an award recognising feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian, the organisers of the event have confirmed to Kotaku.
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Why Female Soldiers Were Finally Added To Call Of Duty’s Multiplayer
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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She’s Sexy. Now Kill Her?
I like God of War: Ascension. It’s a violent video game. I’ve got nothing against that. I like a lot of violent video games. I “get” where a lot of in-game violence comes from: games need to feel interactive; letting me control one character and eliminate another from the screen is still the most easily-comprehended…