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Drawing Minorities Into Gaming
UnseenOperation writes "CNN has up entitled an article Drawing Minorities Into Gaming, which discusses the lack of minority heroes in games as well as the lack of minorities in game development. The article states that black and hispanic youths spend more time playing videogames than whites but members of those groups make up less than 7 percent of the industry workforce." From the article: "Roughly 80 percent of video game programmers are white, according to preliminary results of an International Game Developers Association survey. About four percent of designers are Hispanic, and less than three percent are black...A March study by the Kaiser Family Foundation revealed that black youths between 8 and 18 years old played video and computer games roughly 90 minutes a day -- almost 30 minutes more than white youths. And Hispanics play about 10 minutes more per day than whites."
one of the most offensive characters in game history is Barret from Final Fantasy VII. That guy nearly ruined the entire game for me.
Maybe it was because he was like the worst party member for cloud? its been so long, but when you could have tika, aeris and vincent (my god even Red XII) why would you choose barret?
he wasn't so offensive either, he just didn't say "I PITY THE FOOL" enough.
50% of women developing games should have vaginas? o_O