Original Shownotes:

Our fabulous guests! Katherine Cross, our dapper scholastic games critiquer extraordinaire whose work appears in Feministing and Gamasutra, next we have Tauriq Moosa, who loves the Witcher 3 while giving it a critical side eye, is wicked smart and writes for Polygon, Guardian, Daily Beast, Mary Sue, an and quite a few other places. Last but certainly not least, we have Austin Walker, who recently joined Giant Bomb, congrats on the newish gig! Apologies in advance for some audio issues. Technology turned on us mid-recording so there’s been some editorial finagling done to bring you this episode.

Articles:

• Colorblind: On The Witcher 3, Rust,and Gaming’s Race Problem – Tauriq in Polygon
• More On Race, More on Witcher and how to Move Forward – Austin, Giant Bomb
• Witcher 3, Race and Histriocity – Austin, Giant Bomb
• Opinion: Finding Meaning in Darkest Dungeon’s Narrative Design – Katherine Cross, Gamasutra
• GDC 2015 #1 Reason to Be – Katherine Cross
• Rust Dev Blog on randomly Assigned race in Rust – Garry Newman
• Rust Game – Penis size randomly assigned, tied to your Steam Profile – Nerdist NSFW

POC in gaming critique that people should be reading, listening to and hiring to write?

• Gita Jackson (Paste Games & Match 3 Podcast)
• Evan Narcisse (Kotaku)
• Sidney Fussel (@Sangfroid_San/ sidneyfussell.com)
• Patricia Hernandez (Kotaku)
• Shareef Jackson #GamingLooksGood (Youtube, Twitch, Twitter)
• Spawn On Me (Cicero Holmes & Kahlief Adams)
• Leigh Alexander (Offworld)
• Imran Khan (Paste)
• Mike Williams (US Gamer)

Where to find our guests online:

• Katherine Cross: http://quinnae.com Twitter = @Quinnae_Moon
• Austin Walker: Austin on Giant Bomb! Twitter = @Austin_walker
• Tauriq Moosa: is back on twitter, @tauriqmoosa

Where to find your hosts online:

Tanya D. – @cypheroftyr // @INeedDivGms

Twitch: twitch.tv/cypheroftyr // twitch.tv/INeedDivGms

Patreon: patreon.com/INeedDiverseGames // patreon.com/cypheroftyr

David L. Reeves – Patreon, @RedConversation, twitch [twitch.tv/red_conversation]