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Gamesindustry.biz
Individual games creators have begun donating money to the Girls Make Games organisation in reaction to abusive social media messages.
Girls Make Games is an organisation set-up to encourage more women into the games industry, which includes running workshops and camps.
As reported by Kotaku, Naughty Dog artist Alex Neonakis started getting abusive Twitter messages after responding to the abuse that an EA animator received for her work on Mass Effect: Andromeda. Quoting those tweets, she wrote the message: "I just donated to @GirlsMakeGames in honour of these lovely boys. Thanks guys!"
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Statista via Business Insider
There's a lot going on in console gaming right now: The Nintendo Switch is off to a seemingly hot sales start, both Sony and Microsoft are hopping on the "mid-generation update" bandwagon, and the PlayStation VR appears to be holding its own.
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Launch Your Indie Game
Your game's target audience is the demographics and interests of the majority of it's players. For example if you're launching a match-3 puzzle game, your target audience is likely female, 35 years of age, and cares mostly about achievement over all other aspects of the game.
But before you've launched your game, before you've gathered any real player data, you'll need to make an educated guess about who your players might be, so that you can make and market your game to attract them.
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Laguna College of Art + Design’s (LCAD) MFA program in Art of Game Design empowers students with the professional knowledge they need to become innovators in the gaming industry. Our 90%-online MFA program simulates a working game production studio in which students will conceive of, design and build their own games.
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VentureBeat
Virtual reality is in its infancy, and we're still trying to figure out what kind of experience it can deliver for the masses at an affordable price. So, we assembled some people who are thinking about this every day, as they try to figure out the next few decades of this new medium.
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MCV
One member of BioWare's development team has found themselves the center of a new online abuse campaign.
A notorious right wing blog published a piece claiming that Allie Rose-Marie Leost — yes, of course it's a woman who has been targeted — was solely responsible for the much criticized animations in the new Mass Effect game.
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Polygon
Game making is a creative process, an amalgamation of individual ideas and biases into a collective consensus. Games are consumed by people with their own passions, frustrations and desires. These games are also subject to international censorship laws and the conservative media's outrage machine.
We're told that it's impossible to please all the people all the time, but this has turned out to be a thin excuse for gaming's lack of diversity.
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Kotaku
President Donald Trump's proposal to slash funding for federal arts endowments may have consequences for video games. The types of federally-funded education and social change-related games projects that have received grants in the past may need to scale down or search for other funding channels.
Nothing is being cut just yet, but the president's proposed 2018 budget first reported in major outlets calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and The National Endowment for the Humanities, an unprecedented move in their 50-year history.
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April 14-15
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VRLA Expo 2017
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Los Angeles, CA |
April 22-27
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NAB Show 2017
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Las Vegas, NV |
May 10
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LA Games Conference
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Los Angeles, CA |
May 17-19
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Nordic Game 2017
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Malmö, Sweden
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June 13-15
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E3 2017
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Los Angeles, CA
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July 11-13
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Develop Conference 2017
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Brighton, U.K.
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July 19-23
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San Diego Comic-Con 2017
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San Diego, CA
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Aug. 22-27
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Gamescom 2017
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Cologne, Germany
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Sept. 21-22
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Austin Game Conference 2017
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Austin, TX
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Nov. 27-30
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SIGGRAPH ASIA 2017
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Gamesindustry.biz
If you've peeked at the App Store on iOS in the last week you may have noticed Apple spotlighting "Newly discovered indies" and promoting "Indie greats" for 99 cents. This support has culminated today in a new dedicated page for games from the independent developer community. While it's gotten increasingly hard to stand out on mobile — and indeed, on many platforms as more digital ecosystems get too crowded - Apple, Google and Nintendo have all been pushing for more curation of innovative games lately.
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CNET
The more time your teen-age boy spends playing video games the more likely he'll be to develop sexist attitudes and gender stereotypes, according to a study released Friday.
French and U.S. researchers who conducted the study surveyed 13,520 French youth between 11 and 19. Participants answered questions related to the amount of time spent on video game play and their attitudes toward women and gender stereotypes.
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The Guardian
Glance at last year's big releases and you might think video games have cracked the issue of diversity. Two of 2016's most acclaimed action adventures Mafia III and Watchdogs 2 both had black male leads, while Mirror's Edge 2, Uncharted 4 and indie game, Virginia, all featured women of color. This year, we have flagship PlayStation 4 title Horizon Zero Dawn as well as Gravity Rush 2, Nier Automata and Tacoma, all showcasing female protagonists. But look beyond the games and into the companies that make them, and you get a very different picture. Representation is still very much a problem.
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