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YouTube Orders Theresa Rebeck Pilot About Gender Inequality in Gaming Industry
Theresa Rebeck has a new show in the works. The “Smash” creator is taking on the world of gaming — and tackling its infamous misogyny. Deadline reports that YouTube has given a...
Gaming Company Ubisoft Launches Fellowship for Female Screenwriters
Are you a female gamer with filmmaking ambitions? If so, gaming company Ubisoft has introduced the perfect fellowship for you. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Ubisoft’s film division will...
Amy Pascal Producing Two Women-Centric Films About GamerGate, the Goddess Athena
Having just wrapped production on the “Ghostbusters” reboot starring Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, Amy Pascal has announced two more female-centric films: a journey of self-discovery...
Study: Adult Women Are the Biggest Demo in Gaming
The gaming world is infamously unwelcoming towards female gamers, but it turns out that rampant misogyny in video-game culture hasn’t kept women away from their consoles. A new study shows that...
Video-Game Developer Argues He Excluded Female Characters Because It Would “Double the Work”
Here’s something cool about Assassin’s Creed: Unity, the newest installment of one of gaming’s largest franchises: for the first time in the series’ history, up to four players will be able...
Dispatch from the Game Developers Conference: #1ReasonToBe a Woman in Gaming
Last week, I attended the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. This is a yearlypilgrimage for most people in games. I love writing music for games,and I do at least one major game project a...
Watch This: Anita Sarkeessian Posts Brilliant New Video about the “Ms. Male Character”
True Canadian-American Hero Anita Sarkeesian delivers another whip-smart, nuanced, and necessary critique of sexism in the gaming industry, this time about a trope she calls the “Ms. Male...
Aisha Tyler Masterfully Calls Out Her Haters
We are just so impressed with Aisha Tyler, comedian and actress. Turns out Tyler is also a huge gamer and while some folks in the community were receptive about her being invited to host the...
Watch This: Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes Vs Women: Damsel in Distress
Watch Anita Sarkeesian’s great takedown of gendered tropes in video games in her new series, Tropes Vs. Women, a Kickstarter funded video series dedicated to analyzing the plot devices and...