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January 25, 2019 | By Alissa McAloon
(GLAAD) has announced the nominees for this year’s
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ART GLAAD Media Awards, a list that, for the very first
time in the show’s 30year run, features a category
More: Console/PC, Smartphone/Tablet
AUDIO for video games.
DESIGN Five titles have been nominated for the Outstanding
Video Game award, a category that seeks to
PRODUCTION celebrate interactive experiences that include
authentic and impactful LGBTQ characters or
BIZ/MARKETING storylines.
Those five games are as follows:
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Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire (ArenaNet)
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Monomi Park
Senior Game Designer The Sims Mobile (Electronic Arts)
Deep Silver Volition A more indepth look at why these five games were selected for GLAAD’s inaugural video game category
Effects (VFX) Artist
can be found on the organization’s blog. The winner is set to be revealed during this year’s Sundance Film
Wargaming Sydney Festival on March 28 and May 4, alongside those from television, film, music, and other forms of media.
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The organization has also made a separate post addressing recent concerns over the controversial DLC for
Wargaming Sydney Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey which initially locked players into a heterosexual romance despite allowing
Lead Artist
them to choose the sexuality of the game’s main character up until that point.
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Senior Technical Artist GLAAD notes that it has been in communication with Ubisoft about the DLC and that the developer has,
Wargaming Sydney following feedback from the LGBTQ community, announced it will change the addon to “better reflect the
Lead Game Designer nature of the relationship for players selecting a nonromantic storyline” and will “ensure the paths that
players experience mirror the choices they make in game” in future releases.
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