{"id":44888,"date":"2012-09-20T11:43:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T09:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=44888"},"modified":"2012-09-20T11:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T09:48:38","slug":"ea-backs-gaymercon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/44888-ea-backs-gaymercon","title":{"rendered":"EA backs Gaymercon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>Electronic Arts has pledged its backing for Gaymercon, the first ever gaming and tech show focused on LGBTQ culture, by signing up as the first major publisher for the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;EA believes that to be truly innovative, you must be inclusive. We are proud to be a part of this event,&#8221; said Ginger Maseda, Global Diversity and Inclusion for EA.<\/p>\n<p>While EA has had its fair-share of controversy, the company has always shown its support of the LGBTQ community, even being awarded for \u201cBest Places to work for LGBT Equality\u201d back in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>EA has also never shied away from progressive issues in its games, with the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series offering same-sex relationship options.<\/p>\n<p>Gaymercon will take place in early August 2013 in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Escapist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/119692-EA-Signs-On-to-GaymerCon\" target=\"_blank\">Escapist<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/41436-keep-gay-out-of-gaming.html\">Keep gay out of gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42376-gaymercon-kickstarter-campaign-launched.html\">GaymerCon Kickstarter campaign launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"UK dating site gives dating tips for gamers\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44874-uk-dating-site-gives-dating-tips-for-gamers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>UK dating site gives dating tips for gamers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/40656-women-in-combat.html\">Women in combat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41409-shag-a-gamer-dating-site-launched.html\">Shag a Gamer dating site launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA jumps on board with Gaymercon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":28585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,175,813,6865,6072,6866,5730],"class_list":["post-44888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts","tag-game-publisher","tag-gaymercon","tag-gaymercon-convention","tag-lgbt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44890,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888\/revisions\/44890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}