First major video game to feature a transgender lead character announced by Microsoft Xbox

The first transgender character to lead a story line in a video game has been debuted by Xbox Games Studios, 'raising the bar' for the industry. In a sector that has long struggled with representation the announcement from X-box partner France-based DONTNOD Entertainment has been met with applause after featuring a transgender male at the forefront of its plot. Set in small-town Alaska, the tell me why game story line places the player at the heart of a mystery where identical twins Tyler and Alyson Ronan reunite after ten years apart - using their'supernatural bond' to unravel memories of a loving but troubled childhood. Florent Guillaume, Game Director for the tell me why franchise said: 'The core mechanic of the game is the special bond Tyler and Alyson share and is also a theme strongly anchored into the DONTNOD storytelling approach. 'Over the course of the story, players will explore the identical twins' different memories of key events and choose which memory to believe.