Category: Playable Black Characters
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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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Cyborg
Developer: Computer Rentals LimitedPublisher: Computer Rentals LimitedRelease Year: 1987Platform: Commodore 64Genre: Action adventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters After a crew of scientists set to rendezvous with an asteroid on a collision course with Earth disappears you (a cyborg) is sent to find out what happened to them. In the process you learn that the asteroid is…
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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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Virginia
Developer: Variable StatePublisher: 505 GamesRelease Year: 2016Platform: Mac/PS4/Win/Xbox OneGenre: AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Intersectionality, Narrative Themes Following Anne Tarver, a graduate FBI special agent, as she investigates her first case, the disappearance of a little boy. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Watchdogs 2
Developer: UbisoftPublisher: UbisoftRelease Year: 2016Platform: PS4/Win/Xbox OneGenre: Action, Third Person ShooterTaxonomy: Playable Black characters Set within a fictionalized version of San Franciso Bay Area, Marcus Holloway, a hacker working with DedSec, a hacking group, msut take down the city’s advanced surveillance system known as ctOS. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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We Are the Caretakers
Developer: Heart Shaped Games LLCPublisher: Heart Shaped Games LLCRelease Year: 2023Platform: Win/Xbox OneGenre: Strategy, RPGTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Black Cultural Traditions, politics/ ideology/ history, Narrative Themes, Mechanics We Are The Caretakers is a 3D grand strategy RPG set in a post-apocalyptic afrofuturist world. Recruit, train and manage a secret faction of high-tech protectors (“The…
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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…