Sony PlayStation Announces Partnership With USC Games
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that it’s entering into a partnership with the University of Southern California and its video game program, USC Games. The multi-year partnership will see the gaming giant help the university support Black and Indigenous students studying to become part of the next generation of game developers and designers.
Recent years have seen companies and institutions across several industries pushing to embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion more. Video games in particular have seen impressive strides on this front, and these days it’s not all that rare to see historically-marginalized groups represented in games. But there’s always room for improvement, and a key way to get more diverse games is to get more diverse creators into the industry, which is what Sony and USC’s partnership aims to achieve.
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Starting things off, Sony announced that it’s making a $3 million contribution to USC’s Gerald A. Lawson fund through its PlayStation Career Pathways Program. Named after the engineer who helped pioneer the concept of interchangeable video game cartridges, the fund is designed to educate and train Black and Indigenous students to work in the game industry. It’s a goal similar to the one Sony seeks to meet with the PlayStation Careers Pathways Program.
In announcing the partnership, USC Games professor and program head Jim Huntley expressed excitement to have Sony Interactive Entertainment on board with its push for more diversity. “Representation in gaming matters,” he said, adding that he hopes their partnership inspires other companies to join in. Likewise, Sony senior director Tiffany Johnson stressed that they have a
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