Video Games Are Slowly Opening Up to More Black Characters
Julianna in Deathloop.
Source: Bethesda Softworks
This week: A game about navigating time loops and some new game delays. But first: some strides for racial diversity in big-budget video games.
Popular video games have always been dominated by white male protagonists. (Five hundred points if you can name everyone in this meme.) An assumption among big publishers has been that to sell as many games as possible, the hero has to look like a generic Hollywood action star. The developers of the 2013 hit The Last of Us even had to push back against pressure to remove their female protagonist from the cover.