Racial Ambiguity in Games

I’m digging through all the email that accumulated during DICE, and just found a news tip from a reader named Jason Ellis, who points out that he’s got a list of black video game main characters going on his blog Microscopic. I’d already seen the list, because it was the subject of a little mini-controversy going on over at NeoGAF right now — specifically over the fact that the poster girl of Ellis’ piece is Jade, the main character of Beyond Good and Evil.

Hah, this seems like a silly issue to bring up, or is it? It’s mentioned in the article that there is a lack of black people in games, which does seem to be a case but is it on purpose? It’s an interesting issue however you look at it.

Source: Wired