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Take-Two Interactive and Gay Gaming Professionals Team Up to Promote Diversity Via a Video Series
In an effort to share ways to advance diversity, equity, inclusion and access in the video game industry, Take-Two Interactive and the nonprofit Gay Gaming Professionals teamed up to create an informative video series. Featuring Take-Two and its 2K and Zynga labels, the videos capture many of the companies’…
Programming for Success: The Video Game Industry’s Focus on Improving Access and Opportunities for Underrepresented Communities.
For years, video game companies have been creating educational and career-building opportunities which may lead to fruitful jobs in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, or STEAM, including those in the industry. In particular, they’ve created programs ensuring that underrepresented communities are provided with opportunities which nurture their talents…
Meet Raashi Sikka, Ubisoft’s VP of Global Diversity & Inclusion
A Q&A with Raashi Sikka, Ubisoft’s VP of Global Diversity, Inclusion & Accessibility“I’ve always had a feeling of never truly belonging anywhere, which checkered my life growing up. So I was deliberate in creating inclusion for myself by creating inclusion for others,” says Raashi Sikka, who, in early 2021,…
Seizing an Opportunity for Women in the Metaverse
Perspectives /Many people think women don’t love video games, but they’re wrong. One in three people worldwide plays video games, and nearly half of those gamers are women. However, less than a quarter of the employees in the video game industry are women, suggesting stereotypes may be a contributing factor…
What’s Needed to Design and Build an Inclusive Metaverse?
Events /ESA Foundation Executive Director Anastasia Staten led “Video Games and the Metaverse: How We Will Build it Together,” a GamesBeat Summit panel with leading industry members on “building this new reality to reflect our aspirations and diversity.”
The Entertainment Software Association Congratulates the ESA-Sponsored CHCI Summer Intern and CBCF 2021-2022 STEAM Fellow
Perspectives /The ESA congratulates Wilner Alvarez, the ESA-sponsored Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) summer intern, and Brittany Thomas, the ESA-sponsored Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) 2021-2021 STEAM fellow!
