The event, which would have been in its seventh year, was to take place at Bradford College on the 25th and 26th of this month.
The central theme of WIG2010 was to be diversity, with the intention of bringing nationality and ethnicity issues into debate, as well as gender issues.
Sheesh it's still a man's world when it comes to videogames.
If I was still single, I would have definitely been in attendance with the hopes of finding a smoking hot girl who loves her some Missile Command (that's not meant to be taken out of context).
vlame wrote:dammit, i wanted to see the "this year in tit jiggle" booth :[
bobbynewmarkiii wrote:to be replaced by 'women in the kitchen' conference.
jesus christ y'all Way to confirm the negative gamer stereotype.
It looks like it has been successful for 6 or 7 years, so hopefully this is just an anomaly. Truth is, the fairer sex have never been more involved in games than they are right now. This goes for consumers, producers, and fan culture - all have strong female representation. Frankly, I'm baffled that the conference wouldn't have taken off this year. Maybe there was another reason the delegation was low (higher costs, bad location, etc.).
dsheinem wrote: This goes for consumers, producers, and fan culture - all have strong female representation. Frankly, I'm baffled that the conference wouldn't have taken off this year. Maybe there was another reason the delegation was low (higher costs, bad location, etc.).
There must have been a logistics hiccup, because you are exactly right. Usually if a commercial for a video game included a girl, it also included a boy.
Now, there are complete ad campaigns for video games that only feature women. My wife is even bugging me to get a Nintendo DS.
Pulsar_t wrote:
The central theme of WIG2010 was to be diversity, with the intention of bringing nationality and ethnicity issues into debate, as well as gender issues.
I'm kind of happy in that case that it's been cancelled. Why do they always have to over-complicate everything by bringing all these diversity issues into the debate??
They do this with everything in the UK now. I even heard that a team of researchers went out to one of the Hebridean Islands to do a study on whether or not some standing stones that had been there for thousands of years were (somehow) offensive to transgender people or not.
So basically it seems like they were going to dissect games in the hope of finding out results like "there aren't enough positive gay role-models" or "trans-gender people aren't accurately portrayed".
I'm just so tired of all this bullshit research.
Incognito D wrote:I'm kind of happy in that case that it's been cancelled. Why do they always have to over-complicate everything by bringing all these diversity issues into the debate??
I'm just so tired of all this bullshit research.
While it may not be exactly what you would call valid, there is a need and importance to researching these kinds of things. It's not that they want to add diversity for diversity's sake, but rather to attempt to understand how and why we construct characters or games which are most times structured specifically to exclude acknowledgment of such cultural issues. It's almost as if they are turning a blind eye in regards to these subjects. Video games have always indulged in our basic wants/needs - very simplistic pleasures and issues that we can easily grasp. But perhaps there are times and ways that these games can reach us on a more intellectual and progressive level of thought. Actually creating a dialogue before, during and after game play. I am an escapist, but I am also interested in what's going on during that time and understanding that interaction more.
I think that aggression towards those that would attempt to better understand their world and how it works is a bit absurd. You don't have to go along with it, but to cheer for the suspension of the debate isn't necessary or considerate to the fact that others want to ask questions and talk about things openly. "Over-complicate" might be a way for you to feel comfortable in avoided those issues in your life but please have respect for those of us that want to investigate things beyond the surface.
Sometimes though I feel like they are adding diversity just for diversity's sake.
It seems to be such a buzzword in the UK at the moment that I've grown completely weary and disillusioned with it.
The need to "embrace diversity", I think is being shoved down peoples' throats and that's what I object to.
Way to confirm the negative gamer stereotype. 
