Video Game Studies

I Need Diverse Games via all associated platforms and members; including but not limited to: twitter, Facebook, Google+, and other mediums seeks to bring projects, works and research by marginalized folks to light.

“Racism, Sexism, and Gaming’s Cruel Optimism,” Identity Matters: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Game Studies, edited by Jennifer Malkowski and Trea, Andrea M. Russworm. Indiana University Press, 2017.

This study investigates how race and gender intersect in the stereotypical character depictions used to market video games to consumers.

Nakamura, Lisa. "Queer Female Of Color: The Highest Difficulty Setting There Is? Gaming Rhetoric As Gender Capital". Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology 1 (2012):. Web. 18 Apr. 2017.

A large-scale content analysis of characters in video games was employed to answer questions about their representations of gender, race and age in comparison to the US population.

"Big Breasts And Bad Guys: Depictions Of Gender And Race In Video Games: Journal Of Creativity In Mental Health: Vol 3, No 1, 2008.

Leonard, David J. "Not a Hater, Just Keepin'It Real The Importance of Race-and Gender-Based Game Studies." Games and Culture 1.1 (2006): 83-88.

Ramanan, Chella (2017). The video game industry has a diversity problem – but it can be fixed. The Guardian.

Rankin, Y., & Thomas, J. (2017). Moving Students of Color from Consumers to Producers of Technology (pp. 1-301). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-2005-4

Marios C. Angelides; Harry Agius, "Beyond Stereotypes of Gender and Gaming: Video Games Made by Middle School Students," in Handbook of Digital Games , 1, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2014, pp.784-doi: 10.1002/9781118796443.ch25

Dickey, M. D. (2006), Girl gamers: the controversy of girl games and the relevance of female-oriented game design for instructional design. British Journal of Educational Technology, 37: 785–793. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2006.00561.x

The ESA's annual report examines the state of the video game industry in the USA and provides statistics on consumer demographics and industry sales figures.

ESAC releases an annual report that provides important economic, demographic and public opinion data about the Canadian video game industry.

Data gathered by the International Software Federation of Europe (ISFE), which measures trends in the video game market in Europe.

IGEA publishes periodic reports detailing demographic data related to the video game industry in Australia and New Zealand.

Encouraging more diverse talent to work in mobile, online and console gaming, VR, AR, eSports, VFX, animation and entertainment industries.

Vision:To increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology.

The ESA Foundation established a scholarship program to assist women and minority students who are pursuing degrees leading to careers in Computer & Video Game Arts.

The list of programs that the Game Developers Conference (GDC) supports to encourage diversity and inclusion in their community.

An initiative of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation. Vision: Provide a technically skilled and diverse pool of talent to meet the demands of today’s growing technology companies.

This Games For Change 2021 talk on YouTube details the design process behind the game "InvestiDate," created during the pandemic.

In this panel from Games for Change 2021, industry leaders discuss their successes in overcoming DEIA obstacles to showcase how they have made way for others in the space.

In this Games for Change 2021 panel, the speakers discuss the Black Developers Initiative, a program launched by Niantic in 2020. They then dive into the process for creating a long-term, sustainable initiative and how it came to be.