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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29028236

More than 2,000 people have signed an open letter calling for an end to discrimination in the gaming industry.

It came in response to death threats made against the feminist reviewer Anita Sarkeesian after she released the latest in a series of videos on misogyny in gaming.

She said she contacted police and felt compelled to leave her home. She called the threats a "form of terrorism".

The letter called for gamers to report "hateful, harassing speech".

It read: "We believe that everyone, no matter what gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion or disability has the right to play games, criticise games and make games without getting harassed or threatened. It is the diversity of our community that allows games to flourish."
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29028236

More than 2,000 people have signed an open letter calling for an end to discrimination in the gaming industry.

It came in response to death threats made against the feminist reviewer Anita Sarkeesian after she released the latest in a series of videos on misogyny in gaming.

She said she contacted police and felt compelled to leave her home. She called the threats a "form of terrorism".

The letter called for gamers to report "hateful, harassing speech".

It read: "We believe that everyone, no matter what gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion or disability has the right to play games, criticise games and make games without getting harassed or threatened. It is the diversity of our community that allows games to flourish."

I disagree with her wholeheartedly, but what gives idiots the idea to respond to her nonsense like they do is beyond me.

The problem is she paints a picture with broadstrokes and doesn't give balance - and it frustrates people. There are plenty of strong female characters in video games, like Tifa Lockheart, Lara Croft, Sarah Kerrigan, Elena Fisher, Jill Valentine etc. etc. etc.
 
I disagree with her wholeheartedly, but what gives idiots the idea to respond to her nonsense like they do is beyond me.

The problem is she paints a picture with broadstrokes and doesn't give balance - and it frustrates people. There are plenty of strong female characters in video games, like Tifa Lockheart, Lara Croft, Sarah Kerrigan, Elena Fisher, Jill Valentine etc. etc. etc.

The problem is women are 40% of the consumers and 5% of the product. It's not as bad as films were women are 65% of the consumers and 5% of the product but still.

Plenty in this case is 1 for every 20 male protagonists.

Hearts of Iron 3


Took bloody ages to understand cause the tutorial is gash, but it's a great game.

Paradox is my secret love but god they can't do tutorials at all.
 

There are plenty of strong female characters in video games, like Tifa Lockheart, Lara Croft, Sarah Kerrigan, Elena Fisher, Jill Valentine etc. etc. etc.


Lara Croft was so amazingly heroic on Legend.


Do women write video games? I see most writers, producers and developers are male. Do we know of any games or characters that were the vision of a woman?
 
What are the standout titles on PS4 so far? Am considering...on my PS3 I enjoyed Infamous & Mirror's Edge most of all. Wanna also get back into football games, was well addicted to Pro Evo from ISS Pro to Pro Evo 6, but nowt since then apart from a little dabble with Fifa 12's full manual control mode.

Some perusal of Youtube videos betray only a slight improvement of graphics over PS3: bit smoother details but nothing amazing. What is the Nvidia Graphics card equivalent of the PS4? My Asus G74SX uses a GTX560M, is that miles off a PS4 or pretty similar in power?
 
Last and probably only time I ever played a computer game was something called Operation Wolf on an Amstrad computer that lasted about six months

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