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Songyee Yoon is president of NCSoft, the South Korean maker of online games including Aion, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Blade & Soul, Lineage, Lineage 2, Tabula Rasa, City of Heroes and Fuser.
She is one of the rare women leaders at one of the industry’s biggest companies, and she often gets quizzed by parents about why games are good for children. So much so that she wrote Push Play: Gaming for a Better World, which documents how play is in our DNA.
All mammals play. And since the first humans carved a game board into the dirt, we’ve been told that playing around isn’t a useful way to spend our time. But gaming is in our nature. We game to experiment with ideas and to learn. We play to create new worlds so we can change this one. Gaming pushes us to imagine what more we can become, according to Yoon.
I talked to Yoon, whom I met last year on a trip to Saudi Arabia, in a fireside chat on Monday at GamesBeat Summit 2024. I recalled how she told me that she got a law degree during the pandemic, and it made me reflect on how I got four victories in Call of Duty: Warzone during the pandemic.
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Always focused on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), Yoon graduated from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and went on to earn her Ph.D. from MIT in Computational Neuroscience.
A can-do spirit has helped Yoon throughout her career in gaming, which has been perceived as a boy’s club that has kept many talented women from leading gaming companies. She wrote in the book how
We talked about her quest for a more diverse and equitable gaming and tech community, with supportive environments for working mot …
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GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here.
Songyee Yoon is president of NCSoft, the South Korean maker of online games including Aion, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Blade & Soul, Lineage, Lineage 2, Tabula Rasa, City of Heroes and Fuser.
She is one of the rare women leaders at one of the industry’s biggest companies, and she often gets quizzed by parents about why games are good for children. So much so that she wrote Push Play: Gaming for a Better World, which documents how play is in our DNA.
All mammals play. And since the first humans carved a game board into the dirt, we’ve been told that playing around isn’t a useful way to spend our time. But gaming is in our nature. We game to experiment with ideas and to learn. We play to create new worlds so we can change this one. Gaming pushes us to imagine what more we can become, according to Yoon.
I talked to Yoon, whom I met last year on a trip to Saudi Arabia, in a fireside chat on Monday at GamesBeat Summit 2024. I recalled how she told me that she got a law degree during the pandemic, and it made me reflect on how I got four victories in Call of Duty: Warzone during the pandemic.
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Lil Snack & GamesBeat
GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games now!
Learn More
Always focused on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), Yoon graduated from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and went on to earn her Ph.D. from MIT in Computational Neuroscience.
A can-do spirit has helped Yoon throughout her career in gaming, which has been perceived as a boy’s club that has kept many talented women from leading gaming companies. She wrote in the book how
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