Leveling up:

The most-active gameplaying demographic is African American teenagers.

For a time, some of the only places where Black characters could be found was in sports games.

Diversity Matters:

Playstation recently sponsored Pride London, providing a joyous, hugely colourful presence in the parade.

Xbox got a new feature in settings called co-pilot. It lets console owners map a game’s controls on to two separate joypads, so two people have access at the same time.

Laura Mulvey:

She falls in love with the main male protagonist and becomes his property losing her outward glamourous characteristics.

Once he actually confronts her his erotic drive is to break her down and force her to tell by persistent cross questioning.

Feminist Frequency Website:

The gruesome death of women for shock value is especially prevalent in modern gaming.

The Damsel in Distress predates the invention of video games by several thousand years.