Xbox Promises To Make Games For Much-Needed Queer Visibility

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Xbox has announced its plans for Pride 2023, and they include a “long-term” partnership with media-monitoring organization GLAAD, the option for players to donate Microsoft Rewards points to several LGBTQIA+ organizations, and a curated list of games that are made by queer-identifying developers, feature inclusive gender and romance options, or have queer lead characters.

"What unifies our team at Xbox is the desire to make gaming a place where everyone feels welcome to play. One of the ways we can help members of LGBTQIA+ communities to feel invited to play is through increased visibility & representation in video games,” writes Pav Bhardwaj, chief of staff at Xbox marketing in the blog post announcing the company’s Pride plans. The partnership with GLAAD aims to “bring more LGBTQIA+ stories, characters, and lived experiences to Xbox in ways that will resonate with gamers around the world.” Here’s hoping that means Master Chief is g@y in the next Halo game.


The post also details the importance of and need to bring more diverse stories into gaming, as “2 in 3 LGBTQ young people reported this year that escalating tr@nsphobic and homophobic rhetoric has had negative effects on their mental wellbeing,” according to a Trevor Project report.

Xbox will also make Don’t Nod’s narrative game Tell Me Why free for the entire month of June for the third year running. GLAAD worked hand-in-hand with Don’t Nod on the game, which features a young tr@ns man as co-protagonist.



↪ https://kotaku.com/xbox-p .. oft-1850496094



Time to fire up the Sega Genesis. I'm sure Sony doing the same trash.

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Leaders in accessibility
Leaders in inclusiveness

Gaming for everyone

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Home of the absolute worst user base ever talking about inclusivity lol

Them visuals don't mean sh1t when you're being called a *** repeatedly

Pathetic

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n1gga you are fu#king ******. Stop thinking about me.

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Obviously not based on some of the people in this thread.

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If you don't like g@y people then why is that what you talk about all the time? Yeah, and good look on PlayStation.

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Nobody believes that sh1t anymore

You and your boyfriend @🔗 need to get hitched and stop vying for my attention. n1ggas seen a thread about games for g@y people and it triggered their g@y fantasies about me. You n1ggas are fu#king homos3xual.

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Is the joke even inside anymore for you fam ?

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Good.

More types of people making video games please.

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Lol I'm not even gonna mess with you on this one.

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One of the biggest PlayStation stanleys on here is tr@ns.

Good luck, bigot.

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Don't believe this nonsense. Boy is mad I made him look in the mirror yesterday and showed him who he was. Truth hurts.

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I’ve noticed a handful of bx members I won’t mention are avoiding this thread



edit: he posted twice in a row below me