The motivation was to learn about stereotypes

Posted by fanzhou on January 3rd, 2017

BioShock 2 from 2K Games fell from third last week to ninth.Games dropping out of the all-platforms top 10 from last week include Sega's Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games and Electronic Arts' Army of Two: The 40th Day.UK All Platforms Top 101. Heavy Rain (Sony)2. Aliens vs. Predator (Sega)3. Just Dance (Ubisoft)4. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 RS 3 Gold (Activision)6. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)7. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)8. Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing (Sega)9. BioShock 2 (2K Games)10. FIFA 10 (EA)UK Individual Charts Top 10As a PS3-only title, Heavy Rain also naturally led the individual platforms chart, which ranks games according to sales of individual versions of a game. Ubisoft's music game Just Dance held number two for another week, while both console versions of Aliens vs. Predator made the top 10. In addition, the PC strategy game Napoleon: Total War from The Creative Assembly and Sega debuted at number eight.1. Heavy Rain (Sony, PS3)2. Just Dance (Ubisoft, Wii)3. Aliens vs. Predator (Sega, Xbox 360)4. Aliens vs. Predator (Sega, Xbox PS3)5. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo, Wii)6. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, Wii)7. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo, Wii)8. Napoleon: Total War (Sega, PC)9. Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft, Xbox 360)10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision, Xbox 360).

Racial diversity, both within the industry and inside games themselves, is an issue not very often addressed. At DICE, a panel that spanned disciplines and experiences tackled the issue, moderated by Kill Screen Magazine’s Jamin Brophy-Warren. He was joined by by Manveer Heir, lead designer at Raven, Dmitri Williams, professor at USC, and Navid Khonsari, founder of iNK Stories and former director of production for Rockstar Games.Diversity StudyBy way of introduction to the topic, Dmitri Williams discussed his research into how people look in games versus how the players look in reality. The motivation was to learn about stereotypes. “Stereotypes are a natural, logical, and intelligent process,” he said. “It’s taking a small group of data and spreading it over a wider group. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, RS 07 Gold but it’s a dangerous thing.”For the project, Williams and his researchers took all the bestselling games from 2006-2007, new at the time of the study. They allowed for weighting in terms of what people played more often, so Madden counts more than Beyblade for DS.