Electronic Arts COO Peter Moore has credited Gamergate with keeping his company’s attention on diversity.

“I’ve seen incredible growth in the number of female game developers in the video game industry since I joined in early 1999,” Moore told Fortune.

“You can look at the last twelve months with everything that has gone on with Gamergate, that it’s made us all pay attention to this issue. When we talk about what I call D&I, Diversity & Inclusion, at EA, it’s never far from our minds when we make hiring decisions.

“We all need to step back sometimes and think about the environments we create for our people, the opportunities we create for people internally, and equally importantly how you bring new blood into the company,” he added.

“It can’t all be white males. As a result, I think that hiring managers at EA over the last couple of years have had a sharper focus on diversity. I know that my teams around the world have. If there’s been any benefit to Gamergate, whatever Gamergate is, I think it just makes us think twice at times.”

As a result of this focus, some of EA’s biggest franchises are now overseen by women: Sara Jansson is executive producer on Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir is senior producer on Star Wars Battlefront, Rachel Franklin is executive producer on The Sims 4, and the company also boasts high-profile creative director Amy Hennig and studio head Jade Raymond.

EA also recently hosted more than 30 high school girls on campus as part of its first Girls Who Code program, which ran for seven weeks.

“At EA we’re encouraging girls to think about programming as a career as young as high school, even before you get into college and focus on where you go for computer science degrees,” said Moore.

He said his company was looking to appeal to more women with its games – by including women in FIFA 16, for example.

“We’ve invested heavily to get them in the game and we’ll continue to build on this moving forward with future games,” he said.

“We had the success with the U.S. team winning the FIFA World Cup this year, and I’d argue more Americans can name members of the women’s soccer team than the men’s. And next year the women will be contenders for the gold medal at the Olympics at Rio 2016, which will be another marketing beat for us.

“We’ll know within the first few weeks how many people are choosing to play the women’s teams,” Moore added.

“I think it’s going to have a very positive impact.”