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Five Influential Female Game Devs

Kevin from Denkiphile: "For those of you out of the loop, women make up a significant margin of both the planet Earth and video gaming. I won’t bore you with the statistics except, wait – I will: according to Business Insider, the number of female developers have doubled since 2009 to 22% and is still rising. An Electronic Software Association (ESA) study found that 45% of gamers are, in fact, female. While this all seems very recent, women have been a driving force for games since their invention. Folks like Anita Sarkisian and Zoey Quinn would have the rest of the world believe that, somehow, anyone without a Y chromosome is automatically cast aside by the industry, but that’s hardly the case. Gamers just tend to appreciate actual games more than Choose Your Own Adventure books being peddled in the Steam store. Here is a list of some influential female game developers and their contributions."

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ShugaCane4203d ago

Amy Henning.

Director and writer of Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2, Uncharted 1, 2, 3 and worked on the Jak and Daxter series.

Pretty much a hero to me.

3-4-54203d ago

Yes, can we please give some credit to Women within the industry who have ACTUALLY accomplished something credible.

* More of this and less of ZQ

Anthotis4203d ago

"Gender doesn't matter." - SJWs

"Gender does matter." - SJWs

ShaunCameron4203d ago

The problem with SJW's is that they wanna praise people for merely existing at all as opposed to contributing something that matter just because they're "underrepresented."

WeAreLegion4203d ago

Surprised Phil Fish isn't on here.

godofboobees4203d ago (Edited 4203d ago )

Haha! But far from influential

scark924203d ago

He is not very influential :D

GuruMeditation4203d ago

I don't know, thinking about his smug face is 'influencing' my rage mode right about now lol

XtraTrstrL4203d ago

Man, Naughty Dog better be working on a new Jack & Daxter game.

psuedo4203d ago

Zoe quinn is very influential. The power of the P.

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Kim Swift, former Portal lead developer, joins NEARstudios as COO

The former project lead on Portal is now chief operating officer of Hawthorne developer NEARstudios.

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Amy Hennig's Star Wars Game Taps Director of the Infamously Cancelled Star Wars 1313

The director of the infamously scrapped Star Wars 1313 has joined the team working on Amy Hennig's upcoming Star Wars game at Skydance New Media.

Garethvk986d ago

I was at the announcement for it at E3. They had us in a side hall conference room that was just a couple rows of benches. When the gameplay and video demo started the side walls looked like windows that showed us dropping down levels in our ship to 1313.

rlow1986d ago

Glad he’s onboard, 1313 was so ahead of its time from what was shown. This bodes well for her game. Looking forward to what they are cooking up.

Profchaos986d ago (Edited 986d ago )

After 1313 cancellation and the new trilogy I think it's safe to say Disney was the worst thing that could have happened to star wars

Dirtnapstor986d ago (Edited 986d ago )

Well I hope the protagonist is not an angry, bitter woman, who is mad at the world and despises the need for men, or men themselves.

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Captain America Game With Black Panther Teaser Trailer Released

At today's Disney & Marvel Games Showcase, a new Captain America game was unveiled along with a short teaser, and it features Black Panther, too.

jznrpg1263d ago

Meh . Captain America is boring and I know little of Black Panther besides the movie .

chobit_A5HL3Y1263d ago

no character is boring if you have good writing.

-Foxtrot1263d ago

This is great, it’s like the comics where Cap ran into the Black Panther of that time period before he was frozen

Nick Fury was also in it, I’m hoping it’s the original Nick Fury not the Samuel Jackson lookalike he then played in the films

-Foxtrot1263d ago

Well that was something

Kind of

I’m talking about the original before the Ultimate version

The one who was in the Howling Commandos and because he slowly ages then ran Shield in the present

https://marvel.fandom.com/w...

Ashunderfire861263d ago

Could you imagine if David Hasshoff showed up in an upcoming Avengers movie as Nick Fury? He would say: “What are you staring at? I am the original.” The crowd would be shock with laughs lol 😂

Christopher1263d ago

Looks like it's a WW2 game, so won't be Black Panther from the movies anyway but one of his ancestors.

crazyCoconuts1263d ago

Have you ruled out.... time travel? Parallel universes?? ;-)

Christopher1263d ago

Of course not. It's Marvel. Everything gets left on the cutting room table.

northpaws1263d ago

Did they say who is the developer? That's the most important question.

Vengeance11381263d ago

It's in the title of the article, Amy Hennig is making the game thus it's Amy Hennig's studio Skydance New Media making it.

crazyCoconuts1263d ago

Wasn't there a recent announcement about them also doing a star wars game? Disney must have a lot of faith in this new studio

mkis0071263d ago

Its bumming me out we havent got to see anything of hers since uncharted 3.

Lexreborn21263d ago

Hmm, so you will play as 4 different characters with 4 different play styles in world war 2. I’m pretty tired of games set in world war 2 but seems like the popular set piece to always go to.

It will be sort of interesting to see the narrative of The Black Panther(tachakka I am presuming) who always seemed to be uninterested in that time and who did cross paths with Capt.

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