The DeanBeat: How technology is advancing the cause of women in video games

I did something quite fun the other day that I haven’t done in decades. In fact, I have never done it. I played EA Sports FIFA 16 with my daughters. We have never done that because this is the first year since 1993 that FIFA has female players in it.

My 15-year-old and 12-year-old daughters are soccer fiends, and their club games take us all over California. They were giggling as they figured out how bad they were at video game soccer. They screamed every time they got close to the goal and then the female player kicked it sky-high over the net. But they didn’t care. It was the first time they ever had the urge to play the soccer video game, and it was all because EA finally made the decision to make the game with a dozen national women’s teams. It gave us some very happy moments, and a rare reason to sit together in front of the PlayStation 4 game console.