Video Games Are Lagging Behind In South Asian Representation

Entertainment mediums in the West are introducing likable South Asian protagonists into fiction–slightly steering away from its history of brownface casting and becoming more inclusive of South Asian storytellers. Although Squid Game’s Ali Abdul and Midnight Mass’ Sheriff Hassan weren’t the main characters of their respective stories, they were unapologetically brown, purposeful, and supported byContinue reading “Video Games Are Lagging Behind In South Asian Representation”

GAMING INDUSTRY MEMBERS DISCUSS WHY WE NEED MORE DIVERSITY IN VIDEO GAMES – by Dean Daley for MobileSyrup

In the first part of this ongoing series, I reached out to a number of people in the video game community to ask the question: “is there enough representation in video games?” This time around, the question at hand is “why do you feel we need more diversity in video games and why is itContinue reading “GAMING INDUSTRY MEMBERS DISCUSS WHY WE NEED MORE DIVERSITY IN VIDEO GAMES – by Dean Daley for MobileSyrup”