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June 13, 2014 02:27 pm PDT

At E3 2014, a call for more diverse video gamecharacters

Actress and gamer Aisha Tyler hosted game developer Ubisoft's press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. The company was recently criticized for not animating female assassins in one of its new games. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters


Actress and gamer Aisha Tyler hosted game developer Ubisoft's press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. The company was recently criticized for not animating female assassins in one of its new games. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

NPR's Laura Sydell has a report today on the dismal state of character diversity in video games: not enough non-sex-object women, not enough non-white-guys as protagonists.

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