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Internal Blizzard Memo Details Efforts To Hire Retain More Women Nathan Grayson 8/10/17 8:03pm Filed to: BLIZZARD 55.5K 22018 fyMe Blizzard is launching a "global diversity and inclusion initiative" aimed at raising the percentage of women and underrepresented minority groups in its workforce and improving the work environment for those groups, according to an internal company email recently received by Kotaku Only 21 percent of Blizzard employees are women, wrote company president Mike Morhaime in the email-which a Blizzard rep confirmed to me is real and "they leave our organization at a higher rate than men." These numbers, Morhaime writes, are consistent with the game industry at large, but Blizzard wants to improve on them. Morhaime wrote the company is launching a diversity effort that will first focus on women, but will expand later this year to encompass other "under- represented minority groupS, who make up 14 percent of Blizzard, according to the email. Morhaime wrote that while the company will not set "quotas" for hiring female job candidates, Blizzard is encouraging employees to refer more qualified women to open positions, and it's looking into ways to better recruit from women's groups, conf nd uni s with an initial focus orn more women leaders and a di new graduate hiring s." The company also plans to partner with organizations like Girls Who Code in hopes of bringing more women into game development and computer scienc The email s monthly meetings and advises on Blizzard similar council made up of women from"various levels" in the company, with the goal of helping the company's women and make Blizzard a more rewarding and enjoyable place for women to work." that Blizzard already has anLGBTQ council that off pI eaders "think through ideas to attract more The email also outlines other concrete steps that Blizzard plans to take to enhance inclusivene those whoidentify as women" including networking ns and mentoring groups fo r women across the company,' an annual "Women @ Blizzard" summit starting next year, and improved bia training for managers Recent vears hav like Overwatch, at events like BlizzCon, and in the wake of an incident where pro Hearthstone player Terrence Miller dealt with a flood of Twitch chat racism during a major event. Within its own workforce, Blizzard has seen recent success, more than doubling the number of women interns it recruited in the past year, according to VentureBeat. There have, however, been ups and downs, with Blizzard taking flack for things like a pose for Overwatch's Tracer (which the development team ended up changing after controversy) and the game's problems with toxicity, especially toward women. It's a pro says in the email that Blizzard is in it for the long haul. een Blizzard stress the importance of diversity in games but Morhaime "Our d especially from our leaders, managers, and hiring teams, " concludes Morhaime's email. "We appreciate your dedication to help Blizzard achieve this goal.'" ity initiative will require a commitment from every one of us, but

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FOLLOW New Rollercoaster Tycoon Game Looks Like S--- Jason SchreierY @jasonschreier Luke Plunkett 8,087 4 Fled to: ROLLERCOASTER TYCOON 24 minutes ago Replying to @_KeanuReaves Hey Keanu if you think that two Diablo designers deserve to be publicly belittled and embarrassed because their company decided to make a game for phones you can feel free to f--- off 6:49 PM 02 Nov 18 Hey, a new Rollercoaster Tycoon game got shown off properly for the first time today! Remember Rollercoaster Tycoon, and how good it was 10, 15 years ago? Keep remembering, because this one looks like hell. I mean that in the most literal sense. For all I know this could be the most enjoyable Rollercoaster Tycoon game ever made once you sit down and play around with it. 20% For now, though, "whistles*. This is a PCgame. 2

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SEARCH FOLLOW STORIES NEWS IN DEPTH HUMOUR XBOX PLAYSTATION NINTENDO PC POPULAR THIS WEEK NEWS 18 GAMES 18 Oct 2018 Red Dead Redemption 2 Developers Speak Out After Rockstar Lifts Social Media Ban 17 Oct 2018 Unavowed Breaks Free of the Adventure Genre's Constraints GAMES 參9 PLAYSTATION 29 4chan board /v/ is spreading hate and bigotry, how these developers a saying 'NO' by making games inclusive 17 Oct 2018 A Guide To All The Different Ways To Buy Starlink: Battle For Atlas 18 Oct 2018 The Top PlayStatio Trophy Hunter Is Now Bagging 300 Platinums a Year By Nathan Grayson on 18 Oct 2018 at 10:37PM

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The Worst Heroes In Video Games Alex Walker Oct 11, 2018, 11:00am I am your friend So is Rhyme- Back off! No one's my friend. OW If we don't clear the mission before the time hits zero, we'll both be erased! Case in point: Neku, the worst thing about The World Ends With You. Fantastic game otherwise - and a good use-case for the Switch as a tablet - but good God, Neku is an unlikable brat. A pain in the arse right until the final chapter, Neku's s----- behaviour is genuinely aggravating. It gets a lot easier to deal with when more of TWEWY's pins and item system opens up. But those first two days? If letting the Noise win was an option, I'm taking it every day of the week Your opinions are garbage! НА

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Glitch @GlitchxCity Follow Articles like this piss me off, there's not much stopping a woman from going pro l've been speaking about topics like this for the past couple months and using articles like this as an example that try to push a false narrative to make it seem like the industry is the "bad guy" Kotaku @Kotaku What stops women from going pro in esports: bit.ly /2KZh85G 11:17 AM-16 May 2018 60 Retweets 316 Likes 13 60 316 Glitch @GlitchxCity Follow If anything, we have to work twice as hard if we want to go pro. Sometimes a lot of us don't even want to be in the pro scene because maybe it's not what we want. But one thing is that the bar should NEVER be lowered for us just to make things "easier" 11:19 AM-16 May 2018 7 Retweets 89 Likes Glitch @GlitchxCity Follow If you want to go pro, then you work your ass off for it. You practice, you scrim, participate in tournaments, vod reviews, seek advice, connect with your community, learn from losses, and learn from wins because that's EXACTLY the same thing that our male counterparts do 11:24 AM 16 May 2018 11 Retweets 85 Likes Glitch @GlitchxCity Follow Obviously we have a long way before this is truly an equal opportunity industry, and there's a lot of steps that we all have to take collectively in order to make that happen so we can stop seeing b------- like this spewed from misinformed people that don't believe in US 11:42 AM 16 May 2018 2 Retweets 57 Likes Glitch Follow GlitchxCity But I believe that it's possible and the steps that we need to take starts with us. I may be thinking too far ahead but we're the ones shaping this industry for the future generation (our younger siblings, our kids). Make it better for them than it was for us 11:47 AM-16 May 2018 2 Retweets 48 Likes

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Kotaku @otaku Mario fans are way too sensitive about spoilers bit.ly/2ylwLMu TK Kotaku 3hrs . A very special "f--- you" to all the people who decided to spoil Star Wars in our Facebook comments this week. Readers, we've tried to ban as many of them as we could find. Unfortunately, it's been hard to avoid spoilers anywhere on the Internet this week--and it's really probably best to just see the movie ASAP since spoiler-deletion whack-a-mole is not an easily winnable game. At least no one has spoiled Episode VIll yet! Stephen

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Chris Suellentrop Glixel Also: New York Times, Contributor Previously: Kotaku Super Mario Run's Not-So-Super Gender Politics By CHRIS SUELLENTROP DEC. 22, 2016 Unfortunately, despite Nintendo's history and reputation, Super Mario Run is not a family-friendly game - or at least not one my wife and I will be letting our 6-year-old daughter play. The game is rife with stale, retrograde gender stereotypes - elements that were perhaps expected in 1985, when the first Super Mario Bros. was released in the United States, but that today are just embarrassing. Super Mario Run begins, as does almost every Super Mario title, with Princess Peach becoming a hostage who must be rescued by Mario. Just before her ritual kidnapping, Peach invites Mario to her castle and pledges to bake him a cake. Upon her rescue, she kisses Mario. The game also includes a second female character, Toadette, whose job is to wave a flag before and after a race, like a character from "Grease By failing to update Super Mario for a contemporary audience, Nintendo is lagging far behind the Walt Disney Co., one of its closest American analogues. Disney's film "Frozen” subverted and reinvigorated the fairy-tale princess movie; "The Force Awakens" gave us a female Jedi. Super Mario Run doesn't even trv In isolation, there's nothing wrong with princesses or baking. My daughters love those things, too. But Super Mario Run relegates its female characters to positions of near helplessness. Peach and Toadette become playable only after you complete certain tasks, which makes the women in the game feel like prizes. (To be fair, the same is true of a few male characters.) Worse should you then use Peach to defeat her kidnappei that neither Mario nor a kiss is waiting for her as a reward. r, Bowser, you'll discover The world would be a worse place if video game creators were judged only by whether they balanced their games with male and female protagonists. Some of 2016's best video games, including the interactive drama Firewatch and the disturbing Mario-inspired Inside, are largely about men and boys. Still, lots of girls and women play video games. There are more women over 30 who play video games than boys under 18 who play, according to the industry's lobbying arm, the Entertainment Software Association. A Pew Research Center survey published last year found that almost 60 percent of girls between the ages of 13 and 17 are gamers. Seeing people like yourself depicted as heroic on TV and in movies and video games can have a powerful effect on viewers and players. The actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani, who was born in Pakistan, tweeted after watching "Rogue One," the new "Star Wars" movie, that he "started tearing up" after a scene in which "people who looked like me and dressed like my ple we Representation in interactive media may be even more important than it is in linear entertainment. In video games, players describe ourselves as the digital avatars we control on a screen. We say "I died," not "he died. This sense of identification gives video games an enormous capacity to create empathy for other people. There are video games in which you play as as replacement therapy, as the son of an alcoholic. But it also presents more conventional game designers with an opportunity to create games in which young girls, and not just young boys, actually become heroes themselves.

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Internal Blizzard Memo Details Efforts To Hire Retain More Women Nathan Grayson 8/10/17 8:03pm Filed to: BLIZZARD 55.5K 22018 fyMe Blizzard is launching a "global diversity and inclusion initiative" aimed at raising the percentage of women and underrepresented minority groups in its workforce and improving the work environment for those groups, according to an internal company email recently received by Kotaku Only 21 percent of Blizzard employees are women, wrote company president Mike Morhaime in the email-which a Blizzard rep confirmed to me is real and "they leave our organization at a higher rate than men." These numbers, Morhaime writes, are consistent with the game industry at large, but Blizzard wants to improve on them. Morhaime wrote the company is launching a diversity effort that will first focus on women, but will expand later this year to encompass other "under- represented minority groupS, who make up 14 percent of Blizzard, according to the email. Morhaime wrote that while the company will not set "quotas" for hiring female job candidates, Blizzard is encouraging employees to refer more qualified women to open positions, and it's looking into ways to better recruit from women's groups, conf nd uni s with an initial focus orn more women leaders and a di new graduate hiring s." The company also plans to partner with organizations like Girls Who Code in hopes of bringing more women into game development and computer scienc The email s monthly meetings and advises on Blizzard similar council made up of women from"various levels" in the company, with the goal of helping the company's women and make Blizzard a more rewarding and enjoyable place for women to work." that Blizzard already has anLGBTQ council that off pI eaders "think through ideas to attract more The email also outlines other concrete steps that Blizzard plans to take to enhance inclusivene those whoidentify as women" including networking ns and mentoring groups fo r women across the company,' an annual "Women @ Blizzard" summit starting next year, and improved bia training for managers Recent vears hav like Overwatch, at events like BlizzCon, and in the wake of an incident where pro Hearthstone player Terrence Miller dealt with a flood of Twitch chat racism during a major event. Within its own workforce, Blizzard has seen recent success, more than doubling the number of women interns it recruited in the past year, according to VentureBeat. There have, however, been ups and downs, with Blizzard taking flack for things like a pose for Overwatch's Tracer (which the development team ended up changing after controversy) and the game's problems with toxicity, especially toward women. It's a pro says in the email that Blizzard is in it for the long haul. een Blizzard stress the importance of diversity in games but Morhaime "Our d especially from our leaders, managers, and hiring teams, " concludes Morhaime's email. "We appreciate your dedication to help Blizzard achieve this goal.'" ity initiative will require a commitment from every one of us, but

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