PC Gamer’s proud to announce that we’ll be becoming a member of up with Dames 4 Video games (alongside Twitch and Steam) to have fun ladies and femme-led studios this Halloween.
Dames 4 Video games (D4G), a non-profit organisation that promotes the work of ladies and femme-led studios within the gaming trade. We’re speaking digital showcases, charity streams and fundraisers, and mentorship packages—in different phrases, all good work. Ghouls 4 Video games will take that good work in a pair of stick-on vampire enamel for the spookiest season with three main occasions between October 24 and November 7.
First up is the Halloween Bash Showcase, which’ll be airing October 24 at 12 pm PT / 8 pm GMT. This scare-infused showcase will function solely the very best video games from the crypts of its featured developer’s web-stricken mausoleums (some may name them ‘studios’) in a proud show of artistry, innovation, and variety.
Becoming a member of the showcase as a visitor host is Samantha Beart, who you may know as Karlach from Baldur’s Gate 3—you understand, large, tall, able to punting a mindflayer thirty ft with a well-placed boot. That one.
The second a part of the occasion will happen over on Steam with the Halloween Bash Steam Occasion—reside from October 23 to October 30—that’ll spotlight featured titles made by ladies and femme-led builders, letting you present your assist for these tasks immediately.
Lastly, from October 24 to November 7, D4G might be internet hosting Stream for Screams, a sequence of fundraising streams that’ll embrace community-led interviews, playthroughs, and collabs. I am additionally informed that there will be “particular Halloween surprises”—although it is all within the identify of cool tasks and a extra inclusive trade.
Destinee Cleveland, D4G’s founder, says: “We needed to create an area the place ‘creepy’ doesn’t at all times imply scary. It means intelligent, daring, and stuffed with creativeness. This showcase is about celebrating the artistry that thrives when builders are empowered to inform their tales their approach.”
You’ll be able to go to Dames 4 Video games’ web site immediately if you’d like extra data—till then, set your calendar, sprinkle just a little salt in entrance of your door, eat some garlic, and be sure you’ve received one thing silver to-hand. Then tune in October 24 for a… are we nonetheless saying ‘spooktacular’? Properly, I’ll say it.
