Women in Computer Games according to prevalent stereotypes in the male dominated scene they just walk around in revealing clothing leap and fight their way to victory the stereotypes were on display at the dream act convention in like. The computer game festival hosts germanys la just black and all local area network. Women make up only a small chunk of the seventeen hundred players and they critical of the reductive depictions in games. Id say sex sells big breasts big. Says it does thats not an accurate depiction of women i cant identify with it at all but i think its nice when you can look at a womans face and see something relatable. Does had cut it would be nice if women werent just small roles but main characters who are taken totally seriously at all and that puts an answer. Numbered today estimates from the scene indicate that women comprise half of all game is but they have little influence and a scarcely represented even a dream pack only meant you could out of the east boards tournament for around one hundred eighty thousand euros in prize money the u. S. Market Research Company super data says the gaming industry had a worldwide turnover of seventy three billion euros in twenty sixteen but the industry is interested in female game as its customers which is one reason the sector is starting to shift focus for instance to write as lara croft has changed during her twenty year long korea from a mia busty warrior. To a fully realized adventurous woman more and more games creating multifaceted characters like al boyd they hear it from horizon zero dawn. Or masters from the three d. Adventure game life is strange. Baps these advances are a consequence of game against issues have been hotly debated under this hashtag for years one provocative question how sick system is the gaming industry and must it change one goal of the Game Design Department at the college of technology and economics in berlin is to get more women into the gaming industry itself the fact is that women play games therefore women can also make games and they should in order to reach a female audience. Here conceptualizing games is a combination of design and technology the students load all the necessary aspects of Gaming Development from the design of a Game Character by hand to the programming of the software forty students are trained each year and half of them a women. Of our students are in demand employers say wed really like to have one of your female graduates because weve noticed they can produce better products. Here is somebody who has empathy who knows whats required has the technical know how and can apply it. Someone who can develop concepts brings these skills and consents to ties their colleagues. To believe in Game Development company with one third of their approximately two hundred and so she was a women. Created the game journey which features a strong heroine these relaxing casual games are often played on phones and a quite popular among women. Bringing in more verse of people who can speak to different experiences you can speak to the experiences of people of color to experience. You get more diversity of stories i think its already happening. In particularly in the indie space where a lot of creators are empowered to tell very personal very specific stories using the medium of games. Hopefully its only a matter of time before the diversity of lad increases to. Shift. Now the shifts ranking twenty seventeens most valuable digital startups. Fifth place. The American Aerospace manufacturer and Space TransportCompany Launched with a net worth of seventeen point two billion euros according to recent information. Musk in his partner supply the International Space station their next goal the colonization of mars. Fourth place. The multifaceted Online Community love sharing including lodging that ranges from tree houses to stylish apartments the american peer to peer running platform has. Tallied up a net worth of twenty five point four billion euros not too shabby. Third place shall mean the Chinese ElectronicsCompany Sells smart phones for low prices and over as much of its success to its charismatic c. E. O. The company is worth thirty seven point six billion euros and the headquarters have a cool slide to boot. Second place d. D. Choose the online Ride Sharing Service is setting out to expand internationally but whoever wants to buy it will have to hand over forty point nine billion euros any takers. 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Computes again to be sure that he really works for microsoft i looked at the number where did this call come from there was nothing suspicious about it when i said im socked when he said he could provide me with the proof on the computer i was convinced that the call was authentic. She then downloaded remote maintenance so the call could log into the computer from the front you located various pop up warnings and fake viruses were moved to. For her eyes but the positive impression didnt last long. And at that moment the hacker has full access to the system you can move the mouse see what they have on their monitors and type in commands that makes it impossible for the victim to know if the perpetrator is making harmful commands installing trojans or something similar they believe their computers are merely being maintained to give out. Finally tang he was asked to pay for the saving of her daughter via credit card she was skeptical she disconnected the internet but it was too late monitor was black and nothing worked anymore by that point the hacker could have stolen all of her most important data when youre there to move you on he had the chance to see her Online Banking information and read her emails he could even steal all of her saved passwords and take over her Digital Identity he did to use the name. Microsoft is well aware of the problem according to the us company about ten thousand scams like these are reported every month around two hundred fifty criminal groups such as these are active worldwide the majority are in call centers in India Government organizations are also working against these phone scammers better reilley Successful Police say the best method is selfprotection. 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