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Are Games Actually Getting More Diverse? – Extra Punctuation

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This week in Extra Punctuation, Yahtzee examines whether mainstream video games are genuinely becoming more diverse, using old Zero Punctuation videos to collect data points.

Extra Punctuation Transcript

I was really torn on the diversity of the main characters in Call of Duty: Vanguard. On the one hand, it’s good for everyone to feel represented and that there’s no race or gender barrier to a career as a gun-toting insta-healing psychopath. But on the other hand, it’s not exactly representative of history, but back on the first hand why does that matter, it’s all fantasy, and no different to, say, casting nonwhite actors in the musical Hamilton to be more representative of modern demographics, but then wait, second hand again, race isn’t really a theme in Hamilton whereas it’s pretty fucking front and centre in World War 2 settings considering what the Nazis were all about, and isn’t it a bit irresponsible in this day and age to minimise the racism that existed in allied nations at the time – nee, urgh, aaah, how to phrase all this without making people come and push dogshit through my letterbox…


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Yahtzee Croshaw
Yahtzee is the Escapist’s longest standing talent, having been writing and producing its award winning flagship series, Zero Punctuation, since 2007. Before that he had a smattering of writing credits on various sites and print magazines, and has almost two decades of experience in game journalism as well as a lifelong interest in video games as an artistic medium, especially narrative-focused. He also has a foot in solo game development - he was a big figure in the indie adventure game scene in the early 2000s - and writes novels. He has six novels published at time of writing with a seventh on the way, all in the genres of comedic sci-fi and urban fantasy. He was born in the UK, emigrated to Australia in 2003, and emigrated again to California in 2016, where he lives with his wife and daughters. His hobbies include walking the dog and emigrating to places.