Dismantling the Master’s House: Celebrating Offworld and Current Worlds

This week at GDC’s #1ReasonToBe panel, as we excitedly discussed on our podcast, Leigh Alexander and Laura Hudson announced the relaunch of BoingBoing’s Offworld as a site focused on women’s and minority voices in gaming. Longtime critic and author Alexander will serve as Offworld’s new editor-in-chief, and Laura Hudson, Senior Editor at Wired, will take on the role of senior editor.

Offworld, originally founded by Brandon Boyer, was created as a hub for indie games and gaming culture in 2008, but was later folded into Boing Boing proper around 2010.

The relaunch of Offworld comes at just the moment when the voices of women and minorities are struggling against being actively silenced in the games community. It is because of this that we have decided to do a bit of a round-up to once again bring the voices of these folks to the fore. While this is by no means a comprehensive list, it’s an opportunity to talk about some of the other sites we love and follow.

Gaming Sites:

Podcasts and More:

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Fora and Discussion Sites:

Non-gaming Sites with Occasional Gaming Focus:

Resources:

Obviously, there are a lot of great regular gaming sites we would recommend, many of which often take feminist angles or write about representation in games, but it’s not like we need to direct you to a site like Paste Magazine or Polygon, or writers like Kotaku’s Patricia Hernandez; you’re probably already reading them. If, however, we’ve missed something you think should be included here, let us know! While we’re not trying to create a master list, we do want a good one, and there can never be too much spotlight on voices so often silenced.

originally posted March 8, 2015; updated as of March 16, 2015

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