Invisible Players

Video games exhibit little diversity, don’t reflect demographic makeup of gamers. 

Latino kids are more likely to play video games than their white peers, but you wouldn’t know it, as less than three percent of video game characters are recognizably Hispanic, and all of them are non-playable background filler, says research from the University of Southern California. In fact, while television has been widely criticized for presenting little diversity, research shows that even that media outlet has demonstrated more progress than video games.