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E3 highlights new titles and efforts to diversify gaming industry - Aljazeera.com

E3 highlights new titles and efforts to diversify gaming industry - Aljazeera.com

E3 highlights new titles and efforts to diversify gaming industry - Aljazeera.com
Jun 16, 2021 1 min, 45 secs

After a blockbuster 2020 that kept people hunkered down at home with only their devices for company, the video game industry won’t have it quite as easy this year enticing consumers to shell out for the latest titles.

To meet the challenge, the titans of video gaming brought their A game to this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) — a trade event organised by the Entertainment Software Association and one of the gaming industry’s biggest shows.

The trailer teased a lot of the aerial action for which Zelda is known, and even new Sheikah Slate abilities (including flamethrowing) that would make even Elon Musk blush.

Grand Theft Auto developer Take-Two Interactive Software hosted a panel with participants from Games For Change, Gay Gaming Professionals, Girls Make Games and USC Games to discuss issues.

Much of the conversation focused on a 2019 survey by the International Game Developers Association that found that 71 percent of respondent game developers were male and 81 percent were white, making the “prototypical game industry worker” a “36-year-old white male with a university degree who lives in North America and who does not have children”.

“Nine out of 10 kids play video games — not nine out of 10 boys, nine out of 10 kids,” Laila Shabir, founder of Girls Make Games, told Al Jazeera.

Even among all the new game and gadget announcements, the real star of E3 was the new Xbox Game Pass.

With 27 out of the 30 games revealed at the Xbox E3 showcase coming to Game Pass at launch, Microsoft’s gaming subscription service earned the title of “best in show”, especially for those looking to enjoy as many titles as possible without spending a ton of money.

Some of the biggest titles that Xbox Game Pass gained include the wacky role-playing of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, the intense zombie shooting of Back 4 Blood, as well as the addictive dungeon crawling of Hades.

But E3 perhaps saved the best for last: to go with the Xbox Game Pass, it unveiled an Xbox mini fridge.

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