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2022-08-03 19:00

FIFA launches FIFA+ app with interactive games
FIFA has launched a new app that will allow football fans to stream matches and play interactive games.
2022-04-26 20:23

League of Legends Yuumi Rework Coming in Patch 13.5
The League of Legends Yuumi Rework is coming alongside Patch 13.5, and it includes an alteration to all of her abilities. All the changes are listed here.
2023-03-02 05:00

FIFA 22 90+ FUTTIES x7 Upgrade SBC: How to Complete
FIFA 22 90+ FUTTIES x7 Upgrade SBC is now live containing 90 rated players or higher from FUTTIES 'Best of' Batch 2. Here's how to complete the SBC and the full list of players available.
2022-07-30 02:00

What's the Highest Endorsement Level Overwatch 2?
Overwatch 2 players who ascend to the highest endorsement level get major periodic rewards. Here's how high it goes.
2023-03-11 02:00

Male characters in role-playing video games ‘speak twice as much as females’
Male characters in role-playing video games have 50% more dialogue than females, highlighting a “stark gender imbalance” in the gaming genre, scientists have said. In role-playing games (RPGs), the gamer controls one or more characters undertaking quests or missions in an imaginary world. Researchers from the Universities of Glasgow and Cardiff analysed the dialogue of 50 RPGs from 1986 to 2020, including Final Fantasy, Skyrim and Mass Effect. This encompassed 6.2 million spoken words from 13,000 characters. The results, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, suggest 94% of the games studied had more male dialogue than female dialogue, including ones with multiple female protagonists such as Final Fantasy X-2 or King’s Quest VII. They also found that the proportion of female dialogue is slowly increasing in RPGs at a rate of 6.3 percentage points per decade – from a mean of about 18% in the 1980s to about 40% by 2020. While we expected to find a larger proportion of male dialogue overall, we were surprised to discover how few games - just three of 50 - had more than 50% female dialogue Dr Stephanie Rennick, University of Glasgow However, the researchers said that if this rate were to continue, gender balance would not be reached until 2036. Dr Stephanie Rennick, research associate in philosophy, school of humanities at the University of Glasgow, said: “While we expected to find a larger proportion of male dialogue overall, we were surprised to discover how few games – just three of 50 – had more than 50% female dialogue. “I was also surprised that the lack of female characters compared to their male counterparts persisted at every level, from main player characters through to background NPCs (non-player characters).” For the study, the researchers obtained the transcripts of dialogue used in the games and identified which character said what. Dr Sean Roberts, lecturer at the school of English, communication and philosophy at Cardiff University, said: “We categorised the gender of each character, not assuming binary gender. “This allowed us to count how many words were available for each gender in each game. “For example, we can compare the number of words spoken by female characters to the number of words spoken by male characters.” The researchers found only 35% of words were spoken by female characters and they were more likely to apologise, hesitate or be polite, compared with their male counterparts. They said the proportion of female dialogue ranged from 6% (King’s Quest VI) to 80% (King’s Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella). They discovered one game, Monkey Island, did not pass the Bechdel test, which requires two named female characters to talk to each other about something besides a man. Around half of gamers are female, but they experience a lot of abuse and exclusion. More diverse representation is being called for by players and developers Dr Sean Roberts, Cardiff University The team also found examples of stereotyped gendered behaviour. The researchers said that in Stardew Valley, characters respond differently depending on the player character’s gender. For example, they said, female players are offered a salad, wine, repeatedly described as beautiful and assumed to have little experience of video games, while male players are offered pasta, ale, described as “full of energy” and are assumed to be good video game players. Analysis also showed only 30 out of 13,000 characters belong to the non-binary gender categories, which is about half as much as in real life, the researchers said. Dr Roberts said: “Around half of gamers are female, but they experience a lot of abuse and exclusion. “More diverse representation is being called for by players and developers. “So we hope that developers will consider addressing the imbalances we found in order to create more inclusive games.”
2023-05-24 07:23

Is Warzone 2 a Separate Game?
Here's a breakdown of whether or not Call of Duty: Warzone 2 will be a separate game.
2022-11-04 06:00

A New The Boys Event is Coming to Modern Warfare 3
A new The Boys event is coming to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 called The Boys vs. The Seven with free rewards and challenges in Multiplayer and Zombies.
2023-11-23 02:52

Warzone 2 Mini Royale Explained
Warzone 2's Mini Royale promises fast, chaotic games unburdened by a large map and slow shrinking zones.
2023-01-13 07:00

Will xQc fight Rubius? Kick streamer denies receiving previous boxing offer, Internet says 'make it happen, be a man of your word'
xQc said, 'I will accept a fight that is a little bit out of the norm, especially so we don’t get too much physical damage'
2023-07-04 17:52

Puzzle Studio Zachtronics Announces Closure
Zachtronics will close its doors later this year, the studio has announced.
2022-06-25 03:00

How to Catch Oranguru in Pokemon GO
Sustainability Week has started in Pokemon Go, and Oranguru has been introduced to the game. This article describes how to find, and catch, Oranguru in Pokemon Go
2022-04-26 20:00
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