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Of Games, Engines, and Culture Wars: A 2024 GDC Retrospective

IllTemperedTuna | Mar 25, 2024 | 0

Something is rotten in the streets of San Francisco. Excrement bakes into the asphalt as the light of day burns the refuse into the asphalt. Needles pile from wasted years of moral highs. The Game Developers Conference has wrapped. Elbow rubbed elbow and jerk rubbed jerk among the usual crowd playin...

Video Game Developers Ditch Sweet Baby Inc.

AlexGherzo | Mar 21, 2024 | 0

You know all those social media posts about cutting toxic people out of your life and the lack of guilt that should be associated with such? Perhaps the video game industry should consider it. During their appearance on Tuesday Night’s Main Event (which you can watch on the Geeks + Gamers YouTube ...

Kotaku Loses Editor-in-Chief Over New Focus on Gaming Guides

AlexGherzo | Mar 21, 2024 | 3

Kotaku is in a bit of trouble. Today, Kotaku’s editor-in-chief, Jen Glennon, resigned. Glennon announced this on X without going into detail, aside from saying, “Jim Spanfeller is an herb.” If you don’t know who that is, she’s referring to James J. Spanfeller Jr., the CEO of G/O Media Inc....

The Return of GamerGate | The GamerGate 2 Report

Nerdwars222 | Mar 21, 2024 | 6

All I wanted to do was laugh at some pronoun fluids and Canadians doing land acknowledgments and calling themselves “settlers.” Instead, I present to you a comprehensive, multi-part series on Gamergate, Sweet Baby Inc., and wokeness in video games. Please, play nice. During the dangerous process...

Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra Trailer Teams Captain America and Black Panther

AlexGherzo | Mar 20, 2024 | 0

Marvel video games are going back in time. Today, Marvel and Skydance New Media released a trailer for an upcoming game called… brace yourself for this one… Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, based on (or “inspired by”) a comic book limited series called Captain America/Black Panther: Flags of our ...

PlayStation Employee Tries to Cancel RGT 85

AlexGherzo | Mar 19, 2024 | 0

The entirely too familiar relationship between video game companies and games journalists is becoming clearer. YouTuber and gamer RGT 85, whose real name is Shawn (which he says in the video), recently discovered that PlayStation and Kotaku tried to deplatform him because he disagreed with – I’m...