If you don’t play video games, this hashtag probably hasn’t crossed your social media feed… or if it has, you may not understand what it means or why it exists.
According to game journalist, #GamesSoWhite was initiated as a companion to a much less confrontational hashtag, #INeedDiverseGames, in response to a series of articles that all seem to indicate that the video game industry has a problem with lack of diversity in developer personnel, and the evidence of this is how few video games feature characters of color, either as protagonists, or at all.
Source: http://jelanigreenidge.com/2015/06/04/why-gamessowhite-is-a-problem-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/
Author: H'ng Yee Jin
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