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African Americans and the Video Game Industry

Posted by kdawson on from the in-the-game-but-not-of-the-game dept.

An anonymous reader writes "African Americans spend more money and time playing video games than whites, yet only 2% of game developers are black. This past week, MTV's Multiplayer blog interviewed five black game industry professionals for their perspective on race in the industry. Intelligent Gamer summarizes and highlights portions of this lengthy series of interviews."

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  1. Yes please by pembo13 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Use these statistics to raise the usual USA fear of racism. You'd think that the US was the only place to have slaves in its history -- get over it.

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    1. Re:Yes please by pembo13 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I thought the topic was about African-American in the US and was based on collected statistics? How am I offtopic?

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      "Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
  2. Re:Here we go. by Monkeyman334 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think technology has the most opportunity for women and blacks. I have developed on many projects where people had never seen a picture of me. The only reason people know you're black or a woman is if because you go and post it. Also, technology is most prevalent in areas with the least racism (and the fewest blacks), like the west coast. So really, stop playing the race card. Every socially inept programmer wants to be judged based on talent and nothing else.