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Three considerations for improving diverse game narratives and characters

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In the past decade, video games have gotten visibly more diverse than titles with just straight white men as the player character or on the box art. That is also something that company co-founder and CEO Kim Belair believes is best done earlier rather than later in a game's development. Founded in 2018, Sweet Baby Inc.

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Representation of Black women in video games is on the rise, but there is still room to grow | Opinion

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Forspoken is one of the few AAA video games within the past five years to have a Black female protagonist. If there continues to be slow growth in the development of Black-led characters, the AAA sector of the games industry will continue the fragmentation of its Black consumers. Read more

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FIFA 23, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and God of War Ragnarok tops UK December charts | UK Monthly Charts

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million video games were sold in the UK during December, a drop of nearly 8% over the year before. million games were downloaded, while over 3.5 million games were bought physically. FIFA 23 was the best-selling game of the month, followed by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Read more.

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God of War Ragnarok: A Place Where Your Father Loves You!

The Bottom Feeder

How can I resist breaking down the story of God of War Ragnarok? It's the biggest example of video game storytelling in quite some time. As I said in my last GoWR piece (which got quite a lot of reads), it's kind of futile to critique big AAA games. On the other end: Some dream of video games as High Art.

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The Heart of Gaming Is the Power Fantasy

The Bottom Feeder

If you like weird, retro indie games or RPGs, it’s worth a look.) Video games function best as power fantasies. This is a statement that can generate controversy, though fifty years of video game history show that it is true. We've seen debates about whether video games can be art. It VANISHES.

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Five Bucks To Feel Like a God

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Note: The game doesn’t actually contain vampires. Let’s talk about games. There is a surprise hit indie game I really like, and breaking down that kind of thing is very much in my job description, so let's talk about Vampire Survivors. Many people can create a competent game. Which makes sense. What Is It?

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App Store’s NFT Guidelines: Imminent peril or entry ticket for blockchain games?

Deconstructor of Fun

This week, we get into one of the hottest topics, whether the App Store’s NFT guidelines will hurt or help blockchain games. TWIG #209 What is going on with games in China??? ? Tokenomics #20 - Why MystenLabs Raised $300m to Build a Better Layer1 for Web3 Gaming Lastly ? Listen to one of our podcasts from this week, we’ve got ?

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