Video games give us the opportunity to explore some dark social and political ideas in a relatively safe space and to learn a bit about ourselves in the process. Are we willing to kill Nazis, sacrifice children, or leave loved ones behind to discover secrets about ourselves (even if we […]
race and games
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Episode 132: Fade to White: Colorblind Racism in Games (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week we talk about what role race and racism play in representation and characterization in video games. Our conversation gets deep, we talk about the foundations of […]
Today we are excited to announce that the Kickstarter campaign for our new Invisibility Blues video series is going live. Through this series, Samantha and Alisha will explore race and racial representation in video games via such topics as women of color, indigenous populations, and character generation engines in games. […]
My post today comes from the conversations that have been happening around games for years, but have come to the fore again in the last couple of weeks with all of the discussion of representations of race (or a lack thereof) in CD Project Red’s The Witcher 3. We have […]
My post for today was going to be specifically about Evan Narcisse’s article that talked about video games’ blackness problem, but as I sit down to write I find that it is only going to be tangentially connected. Video games do have a blackness problem…and so do video game players. […]
In the past few weeks I have played both Saints Row IV and Grand Theft Auto V. Numerical markers aside these games have a lot in common. Both of them involve crime (and lots of it), both build characters based on horrible stereotypes, both drip sexism, and both a super […]