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Capcom aims to have 15% of managers be women News Jul 25th, 2024

Capcom aims to have 15% of managers be women

"Looking ahead, we believe we will be able to see more female directors by broadening our scope and increasing the ratio of female managers"

Report: Former Microsoft lead lays into company after axing DEI team News Jul 17th, 2024

Report: Former Microsoft lead lays into company after axing DEI team

Staffer warns of the risk to these kinds of programs across the board, too

Blizzard co-head Oneal is departing the company Job News Nov 3rd, 2021

Blizzard co-head Oneal is departing the company

She only took the position in August

Women and minorities in management roles at Riot inched up in 2020 News Sep 13th, 2021

Women and minorities in management roles at Riot inched up in 2020

But female hires slowed down in this time

Sumo Group hires first equality, diversity and inclusion manager Job News Sep 10th, 2021

Sumo Group hires first equality, diversity and inclusion manager

Leon Killin joined the company back in July

Industry has made progress when it comes to diversity, but there's still work to be done, says Siobhan Reddy News Mar 30th, 2021

Industry has made progress when it comes to diversity, but there's still work to be done, says Siobhan Reddy

"If I think about the industry I joined all those years ago, it was a really different place"

Activision Blizzard says it is "committed to inclusive hiring" practices after describing them as "unworkable" News Jan 29th, 2021

Activision Blizzard says it is "committed to inclusive hiring" practices after describing them as "unworkable"

Publisher was reportedly trying to get out of putting diverse hiring proposal to shareholders

Ubisoft unveils scholarship for UK Black students to study computer science News Dec 16th, 2020

Ubisoft unveils scholarship for UK Black students to study computer science

"We wanted to go one step further and tackle an area where we can truly make a meaningful difference to diversify the UK games industry"

Xbox boss Spencer wants more black leaders in games News Nov 4th, 2020

Xbox boss Spencer wants more black leaders in games

The area where I think we really need to focus more as an industry, including my own team, are those visible leaders because there was a generation where this didn’t happen.”

US Labor Department looking into Microsoft's diversity drive Job News Oct 7th, 2020

US Labor Department looking into Microsoft's diversity drive

Government reckons that this might constitute discrimination based on race

EA details diversity efforts in game dev News Jun 22nd, 2020

EA details diversity efforts in game dev

Firm has created the Inclusion Framework to help studios create more inclusive characters

Gears 5 boss Fergusson says devs need to be inclusive to make better games News Jan 22nd, 2020

Gears 5 boss Fergusson says devs need to be inclusive to make better games

"Unless you consciously include, you will unconsciously exclude"

PUBG creator Greene says he wants his development team to be more diverse Job News Nov 6th, 2019

PUBG creator Greene says he wants his development team to be more diverse

Battle royale progenitor embarrassed his studio only has one woman

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Hangar 13's improbable rise, Epic Game Store exclusives, 2K Silicon Valley diversity fail and much more News Aug 12th, 2019

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Hangar 13's improbable rise, Epic Game Store exclusives, 2K Silicon Valley diversity fail and much more

At the start of each week, we collect the biggest stories and the hottest features of the last seven days

2K reaffirms commitment to diverse hiring at Silicon Valley studio Job News Aug 9th, 2019

2K reaffirms commitment to diverse hiring at Silicon Valley studio

Developer said building a diverse workforce was vital when it was announced in February, but right now just four women work at the venture, with the other 30 employees being predominantly white men

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