Zingoshi crowdfunds AR game for girls on Kickstarter
New Zealand startup Zingoshi has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise money for an augmented reality adventure game for girls. The Auckland-based company...
Strong National Museum of Play recognizes herstory
The Strong Museum opened its Women in Games exhibit today as part of its National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. And to...
Diversity needs to be an inside job
Disneyland was a good place to check out the diversity of the game industry. I attended the Casual Connect game conference last week at...
International Game Developers Association names game executive Jen MacLean as interim chief
Jen MacLean, a 25-year veteran of the video game industry, is the new interim executive director for the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), the...
The DeanBeat: Intel’s 2014 Gamergate mistake paved the path for Google’s memo mess
Google is going through the throes of a diversity controversy over its firing of James Damore, the white man who wrote a diversity memo...
How the game industry tackles diversity and personal failure
A diverse workforce is meaningless if you don’t use their perspectives to shape and enhance your games. This is one of the biggest takeaways from a...
Panel will buck the status quo at GamesBeat Summit
Our next speakers for our upcoming GamesBeat Summit event will talk about “Bucking the status quo: Redesigning leadership for diverse talent, perspectives, and products.”...
Game execs recommend 32 practices for fostering creativity and diversity
A lot of executives say they believe in diversity and creativity, but they don’t always know how to promote it inside their companies. At...
Creativity: What’s diversity got to do with it?
Megan Gaiser, co-CEO of Spiral Media Ltd. and principal at Contagious Creativity, believes that creativity is the mother of diversity. And vice versa. If you lead...
‘Women in game development book’ shows how to break into the industry
Games have been perceived as a guy thing back to the beginning of the industry. But that’s never been true, and a new book...