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First Ever Video Game Census Concludes Games Are Racist, Sexist

A team of researches conducted the first ever video game census, analyzing the characters of 150 of the top selling video games. The results were totally unsurprising if you’re an avid gamer. 89.5% of the characters are male, 85% are white. The most under-represented demographic was Hispanics, appearing in 2.7% of the games, only a fraction of their actual world population percentage. Males, whites and Asians were over-represented, likely because of the games’ origins. Hedgehogs and orcs, I’m guessing, were... Continue reading