Category: Black NPCs
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DEATHLOOP
Developer: Arkane StudiosPublisher: Bethesda SoftworksRelease Year: 2021Platform: PS5/Win/Xbox Series X/SGenre: FPSTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters; Black NPCs; Voice Acting/motion capture; Black Cultural Traditions; mechanics; Narrative themes Set in an alternate world resembling the 1960s, it takes place over the course of a single repeating day on the island of Blackreef. You play as Colt, an assassin…
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Developer: Rockstar NorthPublisher: Rockstar EntertainmentRelease Year: 2004Platform: Android/FireOS/iOS/Mac/PS2/PS3/Quest2/WIN/Win Phone/Xbox 360/XboxGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Narrative themes; Black NPCs; fandom / community / reception; Voice acting; politics/ideology/history; Significant Black cultural mods You play as Carl “CJ” Johnson who, after returning home after his mother is murdered, is drawn back into his former life as a…
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Madden (Franchise)
Developer: EAPublisher: EARelease Year: 1988, 1990-2022Platform: 3DO/Amiga/Android/Arcade/BlackBerry PlayBook/Game Boy/Game Boy Advance/Game Boy Color/Game Gear, GameCube/Genesis/iOS/Mac/Mega Drive/MS-DOS/Nintendo 3DS/Nintendo 64/Nintendo DS/PS/PS2/PS3/PS4/PS5/PSP/PS Vita/Saturn/Super NES/Wii/Wii U/WIN/ Xbox/Xbox 360/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Development; Playable Black characters; voice acting/motion capture; Black NPCs; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; robust character creation system; fandom/community/reception; mechanics Licensed by the NFL, players compete as…
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MLB: The Show
Developer: San Diego StudioPublisher: San Diego StudioRelease Year: 1997-2023Platform: PS2/PS3/PS4/PS5/PSP/PS Vita/Switch/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; voice acting/motion capture; Black NPCs; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; robust character creation system; fandom/community/reception; mechanics In this game you control an entire team or a select player in one of the 30 Major League Baseball teams.…
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NBA 2K (Franchise)
Developer: Sega Sports, 2K GamesPublisher: Sega Sports, 2K Games Release Year: 1999-2023Platform: Android/Dreamcast/GameCube/iOS/Mac/PS2/PS3/PS4/PS5/PSP/Stadia/Switch/Wii/Win/Wii U/Xbox/Xbox 360/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; voice acting/motion capture; Black NPCs; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; robust character creation system; fandom/community/reception; mechanics You control the players of NBA teams where the objectives coincide with the rules of basketball. interviews…
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NBA Jam
Developer: Acclaim Entertainment, MidwayGamesPublisher: Acclaim Entertainment, MidwayGamesRelease Year: 1993-2011Platform: 32X/Android/Arcade/Atari/Jaquar/Game Boy/Game Boy Advance/Game Boy Color/Game Gear/Nintendo 64/PS/PS2/PS3/Sega CD/Sega Genesis/Sega Saturn/SNES/Wii/Win/Xbox/Xbox 360Genre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; voice acting/motion capture; Black NPCs; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; robust character creation system; fandom/community/reception; mechanics This game teams from the NBA against one another in a 2-on-2 basketball gauntlet.…
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Validate: Struggling Singles in Your Area
Developer: Veritable Joy StudiosPublisher: Veritable Joy StudiosRelease Year: 2022Platform: Linux/Mac/Switch/WIN/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: Visual NovelTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black characters, Black Cultural traditions, politics/ ideology/ history; Intersectionality; Black NPCs Set in the Jersey City area, a cast of 13 singles navigate the realities of love and life. Mature themes. interviews and other media scholarship Return to…
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Grand Theft Auto V
Developer: Rockstar Games, Rockstar NorthPublisher: Rockstar GamesRelease Year: 2013Platform: PS3/PS4/Win/Xbox 360/Xbox OneGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs; Voice acting/motion capture, politics/ideology/history, Narrative themes, Anti-Blackness/ regressive characterizations; mechanics; fandom / community / reception Grand Theft Auto V is an open world game set in Los Santos, a sprawling sun-soaked metropolis struggling to stay afloat…
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Mafia III
Developer: Hangar 13Publisher: 2K GamesRelease Year: 2016Platform: Mac/PS4/Win/Xbox OneGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Development; Playable Black characters; voice acting; Black cultural traditions; politics/ ideology/ history; Narrative themes; Black NPCs; Intersectionality; fandom/community/reception; Anti-Blackness; mechanics Set in New Bordeaux that is surging with change in response to the Civil Rights movement, Lincoln Clay is double-crossed and left for dead…
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50 Cent: Bulletproof
Developer: Genuine Games, High VoltagePublisher: Vivendi UniversalRelease Year: 2005Platform: PS2/PSP/XboxGenre: Third Person Shooter, ActionTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs, Voice acting/motion capture; Black cultural traditions Set in New York City the story revolves around 50 Cent’s search for vengeance against the hitmen who attempted to murder him leads him to take on dangerous criminal organizations.…