Friday, January 11, 2013  CD Projekt Red trailer: Yet another
symptom of a sexist games industry  Last year a Hitman game was
released with a trailer that was widely derided for a poor
(read: offensive) portrayal of the women's role in the games
industry.  It was a fair call, too. The games industry is now
the most important entertainment industry on the planet, and
with that comes a responsibility to be part of the global
culture. It's no longer good enough to make games for male
pubescents. Just as the film industry has learned that
exploitation and sexploitation is generally a bad thing, we all
hoped that that Hitman trailer would kick start a maturing of
the games industry.  And then CD Projekt Red went and released
this trailer for its upcoming game:  Notice the half-naked women
positioned in a submissive position as a gang of masculine-
looking figures unload a hailstorm of bullets on her? It's hard
to miss, that's the entire trailer. No context (other than a
token 'this is cyberpunk and she's a robot, s