Still riding the Acitivision Wave of anti-female-characters scandal, a number of blog articles have popped up, debating this slow-burning topic that is, very clearly, still an issue. Critical Distance, has highlighted these blogs during the week of August the 15th
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At some point in your life, as a female gamer, or a female involved in the gaming world, you get a moment where you are Recognised, or at least, given a tip of the Hat of Respect/Appreciation A very successful networking lunch and conference took place in Brighton yesterday at the Develop conference with over 70 women attending to hear Sheri Graner-Ray give an inspirational keynote address. The conference started with David Smith reading out a message from Lynne Featherstone MP, Minister for Equalities. In the letter the Minister warned the industry [...] Develop Conference 2010 This week’s main focus for me is, without a doubt, the Develop Conference, and most significantly, the Women in games conference, 2010, sponsored by our very own Interactive Selection.
With the disappointing cancellation of the Women in Games conference in Bradford, which would have taken place in March this year, it’s [...] Jane is the Director of Sponge; a marketing agency that works across multiple platforms of media, including significantly, the gaming industry. Since 2005, Sponge has been producing creative, effective and highly-praised marketing programs for major names such as Capcom and Sony, with an impressive list of launches including MotorStorm, Daxter and Socom. The collection of articles cover a good spectrum of well known and well debated issues on the projection, representation and statuses of women in the gaming world. They incorporate comprehensive academic and juicy analytical approaches, as well as interviews and discussions from ground-level operatives – girls who are life-long gamers, professors of women studies and women in the industry. This year’s Women in Games Conference (now in its 7th year) to have been held at University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK on 25th and 26th March has just been cancelled because of a shortage of delegates. The two days of the conference was to bring together people from the games industry, public sector and academia [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Diane Lagrange and Jen Bolton from ICO Partners (and previously NCSoft Europe) talk to Women in Games Jobs about how they got into games, why they feel women are under-represented in the games industry and how this is hopefully now changing. |
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