Tag: PS3
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Def Jam: Icon
Developer: EA ChichagoPublisher: EARelease Year: 2007Platform: PS3, Xbox 360Genre: Action, FightingTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, Black NPCs, fandom/community/ reception, voice acting/motion capture Battles are fought using 30 characters based on Def Jam artists such as Redman, Ghostface Killah, Ludacris, Sean Paul and more, each with a different style. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry
Developer: UbisoftPublisher: UbisoftRelease Year: 2013 (DLC) 2014 (Stand Alone)Platform: PS3/PS4/Stadia(2021)/Switch(2019 Compilation)/Win/Xbox 360/Xbox OneGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; politics/ideology/history; voice acting/motion capture; mechanics; intersectionality In this game you assume the role of Adéwalé, a former slave who is trained as an assassin and who found freedom as a pirate. He’s…
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Assassin’s Creed: Liberation
Developer: UbisoftPublisher: UbisoftRelease Year: 2012, 2014 (Remake), 2019 (Remaster)Platform: PS3/PS4/PS Vita/Stadia(2021)/Switch/Win/Xbox 360/Xbox OneGenre: AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; politics/ideology/history; voice acting/motion capture; mechanics; intersectionality Set in 18th-century Colonial America, You play as Aveline, an Afro-French Assassin and the first female protagonist in the series. Aveline takes on 3 roles…
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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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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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Afro Samurai
Developer: Bandai NamcoPublisher: Bandai NamcoRelease Year: 2009Platform: PS3/Xbox 360Genre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Development; Playable Black characters; Black cultural traditions; narrative themes; voice acting/motion capture Loosely based on the manga and anime series, Afro Samurai is a 3D brawler with platforming elements where you follow Afro Samurai, a master swordsman, as he fights to become the Number…
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50 Cent: Blood in the Sand
Developer: Swordfish StudioPublisher: THQ/Vivendi UniversalRelease Year: 2009Platform: PS3/Xbox 360Genre: Third Person Shooter, ActionTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs, Voice acting/motion capture; Black cultural traditions; Anti-Blackness/ regressive characterizations Set in an urban warzone, after 50 Cent and G-Unit perform a rap concert, they are robbed of their cash, paid in a diamond skull, which is stolen…