Take This clinical director resigns from mental health for game devs nonprofit
Raffael “Dr. B” Boccamazzo, the clinical director of Take This, will leave the nonprofit for gaming mental health at the end of this year....
4 leading trust & safety tools form The Gaming Safety Coalition
Four leading gaming trust and safety companies are banding together to form The Gaming Safety Coalition. This strategic alliance between Modulate, Keywords Studios, ActiveFence...
Toxicity in games needs to stop before it can spread
Hank Howie, Eve Crevoshay, David Hoppe and Richard Warren came together to share some thoughts about online safety at the GamesBeat Summit. Unlock premium...
Riot Games and Take This team up in support of mental health
Riot Games is announcing a partnership with Take This, a mental health nonprofit. Take This works towards decreasing the stigma of mental health issues...
How game leaders can change systems to improve employee mental health
We held an interesting roundtable about mental health at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2022 event. I opened the session but quickly let our experts...
TIGS: 3rd annual conference addresses mental health in games
The International Games Summit on Mental Health is doing good work in the games industry by getting people to acknowledge mental health challenges. Now...
Take This: What burnout really is and how to treat it
Burnout has long been a problem in game development. But the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic introduced insidious challenges, making it more vital than...
The DeanBeat: Gaming mental health conference encourages men to seek help
Brett Schnepf was a veteran of the game industry, with decades of experience. Earlier this month, he killed himself. In a GoFundMe campaign for...
4 game charities band together to fight pandemic-related fundraising shortfalls
Four video game charities — the IGDA Foundation (IGDA-F), Take This, the Global Game Jam, and the Games and Online Harassment Hotline — have banded...
Mental wellness becomes a forefront issue for game professionals during pandemic
Mental wellness for gaming professionals has come to the forefront as we all work in self-isolation at our homes, often cut off from normal...