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Geoff Keighley Is Still Trying To Figure Out The Whole 'Women' Thing
22.8.2023
Gamescom Opening Night Live has come and gone, and though there were a lot more women on Geoff Keighley’s shiny stage than during Summer Game Fest (which had zero), it certainly didn’t feel all that natural, did it? It felt, instead, that Keighley’s response to criticism about the lack of women...
Geoff Keighley Is Still Trying To Figure Out The Whole 'Women' Thing
22.8.2023
Gamescom Opening Night Live has come and gone, and though there were a lot more women on Geoff Keighley’s shiny stage than during Summer Game Fest (which had zero), it certainly didn’t feel all that natural, did it? It felt, instead, that Keighley’s response to criticism about the lack of women...
AI unlikely to destroy jobs, but cost to certain workers may be 'brutal' — UN study
22.8.2023
A study from the United Nations agency International Labour Organization suggests AI will more likely augment jobs than destroy them, though certain roles could be at more risk than others
Women in Insurance Tech Conference by Altaworld
18.8.2023
Altaworld is celebrating the insurance industry’s foremost women of influence and leadership at the Insurance Tech Conference on September 7 – 8, 2023, at Embassy Suites by Hilton, Boston. This conference will bring 250+ insurance industry decision-makers together in person, both men...
FIFA 23 ‘Revenge Game’ Trend Sees Fans Rewriting The Women’s World Cup
17.8.2023
If you, like me, are furious that your team is out of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, there’s a TikTok trend that serves as a good outlet for your rage. All you have to do is boot up FIFA 23 and get your revenge by beating the absolute piss out of, say, Sweden, racking up the score until it’s high...
FIFA 23 Introduces The First Hijab-Wearing Player
10.8.2023
A recent FIFA 23 update adds 25-year-old Moroccan footballer Nouhaila Benzina’s hijab to her in-game character model, signifying the first time EA’s soccer simulator has ever included a head covering on a player.Read more
Anita Sarkeesian Shutters Feminist Frequency, Operations To Cease In Early 2024
1.8.2023
After nearly 15 years, feminist game critic Anita Sarkeesian’s non-profit organization Feminist Frequency will cease operations in early 2024. The news was delivered via official press release with Sarkeesian citing endless burnout and exhaustion from growing the site over the years, which she says...
Announcing ETHWomen: Untraceable events and 15+ Women-Led Web3 Groups unite for hackathon in Toronto
26.7.2023
The inaugural ETHWomen, a female-focused and inclusive hackathon, is set to take place this summer from July 14 to August 23. With a strong focus on empowering female talent in the Web3 industry, ETHWomen is a hybrid event combining online participation with an in-person experience. The live event...
Despite Advancements, Games Still Aren't Doing Enough To Stop Toxic Voice Chat
21.7.2023
I started regularly playing competitive online games in 2007, with the launch of Halo 3. Back then, participating in in-game voice chat was harrowing for a 17-year-old girl whose voice betrayed her gender and her youth. I was subjected to such frequent and horrific hostility (rape threats...
Women Are Staying In FC 24 Ultimate Team, Go Cry About It
18.7.2023
EA FC 24, the first post-FIFA soccer game from the sports mega-publisher, isn’t out until September 23, but the team behind it is already putting out fires lit by giant adult babies. Read more
Credit Suisse and Swiss Football Association To Release Women's Football NFT Collection
4.7.2023
All of the proceeds from the collection, featuring portraits of the Swiss Women’s National Team, will be donated to support women’s football in Switzerland
Okx’s Haider Raffique Optimistic MCFC Partnership Can Help Grow Blockchain
3.7.2023
On Friday, June 30, Okx announced an expansion of its existing partnership with recent Champions League winners, Manchester City Football Club. The partnership entails Okx, which previously sponsored the club’s training kit, becoming the sleeve sponsor for both the men’s...
FC Barcelona Partners with World of Women for NFT Collection
26.6.2023
European football giant FC Barcelona has partnered with the non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem World of Women to release the second piece in its 'Masterpiece' collection.
The NFT is titled 'Empowerment' and is inspired by Spanish football player Alexia Putellas. Widely known as Alexia,...
Soccer Franchise FC Barcelona Scores World of Women for Upcoming NFT Release
24.6.2023
Empowerment, the second NFT in the football club’s ten-piece Masterpiece collection, is a one-of-one created in collaboration with World of Women that pays tribute to Spanish player Alexia Putellas
There Would Have Been A Woman At Summer Game Fest, But She Couldn't Make It
19.6.2023
During 2023's Summer Game Fest, something really rather awkward became all too apparent as the gruelling hours of commercials wound on: there were no women on stage. At the time, Kotaku and others wondered of frontman Geoff Keighley why this happened, but answers weren’t forthcoming. Since...
Star Wars Outlaws’ Backlash Proves We Need More Women Protagonists
13.6.2023
Ubisoft’s open-world Star Wars game is one of the most hyped titles to come out of Summer Game Fest 2023, with its GTA-eqsue gameplay intriguing players, its sexy droid turning them on, and its woman protagonist making chuds very, very angry.Read more
Data Shows Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly
9.6.2023
This really shouldn’t be news and it certainly shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, but yes, new data from Circana shows that—as we told you in 2017—women play video games. In fact, more than half of all Switch owners are women. And a very vocal bunch of idiots are reacting about as well as you’d...
Male Video Game Characters Talk Way More Than Women, Research Shows
31.5.2023
A new study has uncovered a not-so-surprising truth about gender bias in video games: Across 50 role-playing games, male characters have about twice as much dialogue as female characters. Shocking, I know.Read more
Spike in Crypto Scams Targeting Young Korean Women – Here’s How Fraudsters Strike
29.5.2023
There has been a spike in South Korean crypto scams that target young women on social media platforms, a new study has revealed.
Per iNews24 and Hanguk Kyungjae, the study revealed that 71% of “romance scam victims” ensnared via social media in 2022 were women.
The vast majority of these women...
Board Game Exec Says 'Females Are Socialized' To Avoid 'Harsh Criticism Of Their Abilities'
25.5.2023
Earlier this week Wingspan designer Elizabeth Hargrave wrote a Twitter thread outlining a glaring issue the board game industry has with representation: namely, that there simply aren’t enough games winning awards and getting published that have been designed by women.Read more