Category: Playable Black Characters
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MLB: The Show
Developer: San Diego StudioPublisher: San Diego StudioRelease Year: 1997 – PresentPlatform: 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…
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NBA 2K (Franchise)
Developer: Sega Sports, 2K GamesPublisher: Sega Sports, 2K Games Release Year: 1999 – PresentPlatform: 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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…