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The male-dominated video game industry is changing as more women develop games, play games and take jobs reviewing games.

While the ongoing cyber harassment of female gamers known as “Gamergate” indicates a reluctance by some to accept the growing number of women in the industry, mainstream institutions are welcoming all to the console.

The animation and gaming arts programme at Philadelphia’s Moore College of Art & Design will see its first class of game developers graduate next year. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology created its Game Lab in 2012. New York University’s Tisch School began offering a video game design degree last year.

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​”There’s going to be a huge boom of women entering the industry in the next 10 years,” said Stephen Wood, Moore’s gaming arts professor, who took over the fledging programme when he joined the faculty in 2014.

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