
Does a player’s gender affect their gaming experience?
In a recent social experiment by Women in Games Argentina, three male VALORANT gamers played Riot Games’ first-person shooter using voice changers to make them sound like women.
The experiment brought to light the misogyny that women face while playing online video games, and the gamers’ experiences were documented and released on YouTube in a video titled Switch Voices.
“With this action, we intend to make visible a situation that is denounced daily by gamers around the world, and for which they do not find support from video game companies and, in most cases, not even from the gamer community itself,” Women in Games Argentina stated in the YouTube description.
All three participants…