3G Summit

After going to Chicago’s latest Comic-Con ago its hard not to notice the objectification of women. What some people might not think about however, is the self-objectification of women.  Mindy shared a great article with me on the matter, from a panel presentation called “Oh, You Sexy Geek!”  The panel description:  Does displaying the sexiness [...]

“…14-year-old Lexi Peters will be stick handling past men twice her size as she plays in the starting lineup for the Buffalo Sabres. Or the Vancouver Canucks. Or any NHL team the 90-pound left-winger chooses. Because when video game publisher Electronic Arts releases the latest edition of its popular NHL series on Tuesday, Lexi will [...]

Radio Rookies at WNYC is a youth media program that trains youth in radio journalism. This piece is done by 17 year old Jessica Cernadas and it’s awesome! Listen to it now! Forty percent of the people who play video games in the U.S. are female, according to the industry group Entertainment Software Association. But [...]

Team Chi-Buzz, a group of teens girls who worked under the mentorship of indie game designer, Susana Ruiz (Take Action Games) at the 3G Summit, has just entered a playable prototype of Mosquito race into the national STEM Video Game Challenge where they are competing for up to $50,000 in prizes. Inspired by the Educate [...]

In Summer of 2010, world renowned game designer, Tracy Fullerton served as a mentor for Team Awesome, a group of teenage girls at the 3G Summit (August 12-15th, 2010).  The original game concept was awarded the Audience Choice Award and the IAM Faculty Award. After Team Awesome put their brains behind Glop Ogus, the concept [...]

Bio Shira Chess is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Miami University of Ohio, in the Department of Mass Communication. Her dissertation, A License to Play: Women, Productivity, and Video Games disentangled ways that themes of “productive play” often are a major part in how video games are designed for and marketed to women audiences. She [...]

The Women in Games chapter in the IGDA was kind enough to help us announce the 3G Summit in their newsletter. Not only that, but they featured an article by our own Mindy Faber. >|Check out the article here|<

Amanda Dittami of the 3G Summit’s very own advisory team took some time to talk with the good people at the She’s Got Game blog site. Check out what she had to say about her work with the 3G Summit. Click Here to read the interview with Amanda Dittami