LAST week, a Scotland-based game development studio won the Bafta Games Awards' British Game category for a "mind-bending" single-player puzzle game that creatively uses photography to allow gamers to explore and reshape a mysterious world. Considering how male-dominated gaming continues to be, it's interesting to note that the studio's co-founder is a woman, and a Filipina at that.

As a further point of Pinoy pride, other folks behind that award-winning game — including the producer, two artists and the musician who wrote the music for the trailer — are also Filipinos, but let's get back to gaming's gender gap. It might surprise you to know that women represent half of all gamers globally. In Southeast Asia, they even outnumber men slightly (at 53 percent), but in the Philippines, they outright dominate: 63 percent of gamers in this country are women, according to the estimates of one video game market research firm.

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