Saudi Arabia

Badiya hopes to change Arabic representation in videogames

11 May 2016 3 min read News

“Sometimes showing things just the way they really are is the biggest contribution you can make toward the cause,” explains Ahmad Jadallah, the director of development at Saudi Arabian studio Semaphore. He’s looking to help fix representation of the Arab world in videogames, and hopes that his team’

Young Saudi women demand we expand the imagined gaming community

15 Dec 2015 2 min read News

That all sorts of people now play games is something of an article of faith, but definitions of “all sorts of people” vary. Inclusivity has a great deal to do with imagination; it requires you to imagine that people who are not your clones share common interests. The success or failure of communitie