2020 is the year of the girl gamer.

In 2019, black women gamers received a big win. We are a main playable character in the upcoming video game Deathloop. League of Legends has added it’s first black girl playable character in its 11 year history. Overwatch will be debuting their first black woman character with the release of Overwatch 2. The representation is happening!

The plan for 2020 is to keep this momentum going.

Starting with the first major Girls Only LAN party in NYC. League of Ladies is a Local Area Network (LAN) party designed to be a safe space for women gamers. Women will be able to learn and improve in various games in a safe, positive environment. League of Ladies welcomes all women regardless of age or skill level. This is your time to “git gud”.

The event will have tournaments for various fighting games (Smash, Tekken, Street Fighter, etc), and will also be live streamed on the event coordinator’s Twitch channel. Event hosts will include Player 3 of LAN Party Podcast and Frankey Smith aka Fantastic Frankey.

The Geek Caster women will be checking out this event when it happens in March, and we will definitely be talking about it in studio before and after. My personal hope, is to see more women of color in the competitive scene and in eSports in general. Developers gave us a little bit of what we wanted, but creating a larger presence in competitive gaming will definitely show how serious a demographic we are.

Anyone who would like to support can do so via the League of Ladies Kickstarter or by tuning into the League of Ladies Twitch stream in March! Tell your friends, and remember: Heroes never die.

Update: League of Ladies has been postponed until Fall 2020.

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Some interesting information has come out of X-Kira Datamining on Twitter. The user specializes in digging up information from popular games, in this case Street Fighter V. And based on their tweets, a fourth season of content for the game is already being planned, along with a new release.

The publisher could be introducing five “legacy” characters into the fold over the course of the next year, along with a new face joining up for the first time. They do warn to take the information “with a grain of salt” since Capcom hasn’t said anything, but it sounds very similar to the business plan it had this year. Check out the tweet below.

https://twitter.com/XKiraDatamining/status/1042999329055625217

Twitter User @Imjetset responded to the tweet:

Please be Rose please be rose please be rose

— Jetset (@imjetset) September 21, 2018

Vergeben, who has provided leaks in the past that have ended up being accurate (like Ridley and the Castlevania Belmonts being in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate), was able to dig up names of who would be joining the party. This includes Necro, Q and Oro from Street Fighter III fame, along with fan favorite Crimson Viper and Final Fight veteran Sodom, along with the not-yet-revealed newcomer.

But along with other information, including potential holiday outfits for a number of Street Fighter characters, X-Kira also discovered a listing for Super Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, showing off some kind of release in December 2019. You can see the tweet below.

https://twitter.com/XKiraDatamining/status/1037675478319026176

Twitter User @superVeritech responded to the tweet:

I think Capcom always intended for seasons to start in December. Season 3 was just delayed due to Arcade Edition.

— Dan Badd… (@superVeritech) September 14, 2018

What do you think about Street Fighter V? If you had a chance to create a character, what would be the name of your character and their abilities? Let me know on Instagram and Twitter @BlueJayHJB. Follow Geekcaster on Facebook.

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