{"id":91132,"date":"2019-03-29T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/339771"},"modified":"2019-03-29T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T19:47:00","slug":"the-elder-scrolls-online-summerset-takes-home-glaad-award-for-outstanding-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/29\/the-elder-scrolls-online-summerset-takes-home-glaad-award-for-outstanding-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset takes home GLAAD award for outstanding video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD appointed&nbsp;its inaugural award for Outstanding Video Game to&nbsp;<em>The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset<\/em> during&nbsp;the 30th annual GLAAD Media Awards last night.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As explained in a press release, the Outstanding Video Game category was introduced to the GLAAD Media Awards late last&nbsp;year, following the rise and influence of LGBTQ representation in games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other nominees included&nbsp;<em>Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire<\/em>, <em>Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire<\/em>, <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Odyssey, <\/em>and <em>The Sims Mobile.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Elder Scrolls Online:&nbsp;Summerset<\/em> expansion was selected for one of its questlines&nbsp;&#8220;Manor of Masques,&#8221; where players were tasked in&nbsp;helping to reunite a transgender woman with her estranged twin sister.<\/p>\n<p>The game was selected for how the questline&nbsp;dealt&nbsp;with the difficult topics of coming out and acceptance in a way that reflected&nbsp;the lived reality of many transgender people today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The video game landscape is ever-expanding, and it&#8217;s critical that all players see themselves represented fairly and accurately in the content,&#8221; said chief programs officer at GLAAD Zeke Stokes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LGBTQ people are an important and growing part of the gaming community, and we are so proud to honor an impressive slate of nominees in this first year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD appointed&nbsp;its inaugural award for Outstanding Video Game to&nbsp;The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset during&nbsp;the 30th annual GLAAD Media Awards last night.&nbsp; As explained in a press release, the Outstanding Video Game category was introduced to the GLAAD Media Awards late last&nbsp;year, following the rise and influence of LGBTQ representation in games.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}