IGDA Members – time to vote for 5 new board appointments. Get online

Are you a member of the IGDA, the International Games Developers Association? You can now vote for 5 new board members. There are 23 candidates. 18 men and 5 women. The people whom you select today will shape the organization for the next 3 years.  Please take some time to inform yourself on the backgrounds [...]

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Top 10 or 100 women in video games lists – are they inspirational or sexist?

The start of a new year or new decade often brings with it top 10 or top 20 lists of people/things that have been most influential in the previous year or decade and this year was no exception. Kotaku reprints a Gaming Angels article on the top 10 women of the last decade who have [...]

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Louise Murray, Head of Fable Franchise at BAFTA winning Microsoft Studio Lionhead, talks to Women in Games Jobs

Louise Murray Head of Fable Franchise at Microsoft Studio, Lionhead recently spoke to Antonia Cullum of Women in Games (WIG) Jobs on what it is like for her working in the games industry as a woman and how great it was to win a BAFTA for her studio’s work on Fable II.

Louise joined the games [...]

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Irish study highlights gender imbalance

A recent survey of the Irish games industry has shown that women are significantly under-represented even by comparison with the UK. The study invited all companies in Ireland whose main function was game related to respond to questions on a variety of topics – approximately 2/3 of companies took part and the resulting statistics [...]

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