{"id":4319,"date":"2022-01-11T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T12:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/whats-actually-being-done-about-workplace-harassment-in-the-video-games-industry\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T13:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T12:36:17","slug":"whats-actually-being-done-about-workplace-harassment-in-the-video-games-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/whats-actually-being-done-about-workplace-harassment-in-the-video-games-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s actually being done about workplace harassment in the video games industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: actual, lasting change to toxic \u2018studio culture\u2019 is an expensive problem to solve \u2013 but more costly to ignore<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve followed gaming news over the past couple of years, it has been impossible to avoid the many appalling stories about workplace harassment and discrimination that have emerged as part of a long-overdue reckoning in the games industry. As a woman who\u2019s worked in the games media for over 15 years, I can only say that I have been grimly unsurprised by the revelations. The consequences that women face for speaking out on these issues has meant that until recently, few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jan\/24\/video-games-industry-metoo\">were willing to do so publicly<\/a>. Last month, however, marked a turning point, as Riot Games paid out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/dec\/28\/riot-games-to-pay-100m-to-settle-gender-discrimination-lawsuit\">$100m<\/a> in a settlement to more than 2,000 women who brought a case against it for gender discrimination. Other scandal-hit publishers and developers will be quaking in their boots.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/jan\/11\/pushing-buttons-video-games-industry-harassment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cf9a6e07f0a548fc28cd1e0d83c2b3e60f92ebd2\/0_203_6016_3610\/master\/6016.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2082f9aec885b6d524b9acd37c435943\" title=\"What\u2019s actually being done about workplace harassment in the video games industry\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: actual, lasting change to toxic \u2018studio culture\u2019 is an expensive problem to solve \u2013 but more costly to ignore<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nWelcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019ve followed gaming news over the past couple of years, it has been impossible to avoid the many appalling stories about workplace harassment and discrimination that have emerged as part of a long-overdue reckoning in the games industry. As a woman who\u2019s worked in the games media for over 15 years, I can only say that I have been grimly unsurprised by the revelations. The consequences that women face for speaking out on these issues has meant that until recently, few were willing to do so publicly. Last month, however, marked a turning point, as Riot Games paid out $100m in a settlement to more than 2,000 women who brought a case against it for gender discrimination. Other scandal-hit publishers and developers will be quaking in their boots. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: actual, lasting change to toxic \u2018studio culture\u2019 is an expensive problem to solve \u2013 but more costly to ignore Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/whats-actually-being-done-about-workplace-harassment-in-the-video-games-industry\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What\u2019s actually being done about workplace harassment in the video games industry<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}