Acknowledgements

Adrienne Shaw (Researcher & Author), US Game Studies Scholar and Associate Professor at Temple University in the Klein College of Media and Communication

Blair Durkee (Researcher & Author), Associate Director of Gaming at GLAAD

Annabelle Cook (Researcher & Author), Consultant, GLAAD Media Institute

Tristan Marra (Researcher), Vice President of Research & Reports at GLAAD

Margaret Gallagher (Layout & Design) Ideas on Fire (Copy Editing)

SPECIAL THANKS

Gwendolyn Pointer, Rich Ferraro, Nick Adams, Raina Deerwater, Megan Townsend, Tony Morrison, and Heidi Spillum

ADDITIONAL SPECIAL THANKS to the Nielsen Games Team, to Stacie deArmas, and Patricia Ratulangi at Nielsen

Leadership support for GLAAD Gaming provided by Logitech

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