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A woman working on an all-female team of data scientists in the gaming industry pulls an ingenious prank on her male CEO and replaces the scantily clad female comic character he has a soft (hard?) spot for with another kind of poster.

But lest we forget, one of the brave everyday women at the helm of the Second Wave of Feminism did the exact same thing 40 years ago and shared it on the “social media” of her day.

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More and more, I’m seeing that games are mining good, old-fashioned human anxieties for their drama, and that’s really promising. Games, more and more, are not just about shooting and fighting, and for that reason I’m optimistic and heartened about where the medium is heading, because I think game designers are getting more interested in making games that explore what it means to be alive.

Tom Bissell, author of Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation, talks to Maria Bustillos about video games and storytelling.

Also see Jane McGonigal’s Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.

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Taking a stance for gender-neutral gaming, one father reprograms iconic vintage game Donkey Kong for his daughter in an era of heavily gender-biased toys.

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A Slower Speed of Light – new free game from MIT Game Lab simulates lowering the speed of light as a gameplay mechanic

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The evolution of video games over the past 20 years, as a musical composition made entirely out of original sounds from games.

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How early exposure to Dungeons & Dragons manifests later in life, in a flowchart by Sam Potts.