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Sarkeesian: "Your DEI initiatives are making your culture worse"

GamesIndustry.biz

Diversity, equity, and inclusion has been a hot button topic in the games industry over the past decade, with numerous companies embracing DEI efforts in the wake of scandals and tragedies that emphasized the inequality of industry, specific companies, or society as a whole.

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Call for Papers: Game Global Summit: Berlin, July 11, 2022

Game Global

An advisory board of professionals from the industry will help us pick the topics and select the best presentations, ensuring relevance. Do you have a topic innovative enough to engage and challenge our attendees in a discussion during and after the presentation? Inclusivity and accessibility in the gaming industry.

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Develop:Brighton 2022

OPM Jobs

About Develop:Brighton Develop:Brighton is the only event in the UK that brings the entire game-making industry together – from global superstars to micro indies, to learn from each other, share ideas and experiences, network and do business in a friendly and inclusive environment. And they’ve been doing it since 2006.

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Game Stack Live to Feature RTXDI and Minecraft Graphics Sessions (April 20-21)

Nvidia

This year, Microsoft’s free Game Stack Live event (April 20-21), starting at 8am PDT, will offer a wide range of can’t-miss sessions for game developers, in categories that include Graphics, System & Tools, Production & Publishing, Accessibility & Inclusion, Audio, Multiplayer, and Community Connections.

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Aaron Trammell’s Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology

Jesper Juul

In this book, Aaron Trammell proposes a corrective: a radical reconsideration of play that expands its definition to include BIPOC suffering, subjugation, and taboo topics such as torture. Going further, Trammell departs from mainstream theory to insist that torture can be play.

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Transgender Visibility Within The Games Industry

OPM Jobs

The game has however received some criticism for the odd choice to have pronouns and voices locked together and whether the nature of trans inclusion (including models and posters throughout the world) is exploitive and hypersexualised. ” – GLAAD director Nick Adams. This teaches cis individuals to accept the trans community.

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Introducing Community Health on AWS

AWS Games

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is proud to announce the launch of Community Health on AWS , a set of solutions designed to help AWS for Games customers build and grow safe, inclusive, and fun online communities.

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