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Sony Changes an Image in Stellar Blade Amid Controversy

AlexGherzo | Apr 24, 2024 | 1

Games journalists have found a new way to attack Stellar Blade. Their outrage over the lead character, Eve, being a curvaceous woman didn’t hurt the game’s sales – it actually may have helped them – but this time, they got Sony to relent. At one point in the game, Eve comes across some graff...

Kabrutus Launches DEI Detected Website

AlexGherzo | Apr 23, 2024 | 2

Kabrutus has expanded his focus from Sweet Baby Inc.; now, he’s taking on the whole DEI consulting industry. The creator of the Sweet Baby Inc. Detected Steam curator just launched a website called DEI Detected, where he and his team will list all the video games that have been influenced by woke ...

IGN Misrepresents Post From Palworld Designer Pocketpair’s CEO

AlexGherzo | Apr 17, 2024 | 0

Remember Palworld? It’s the “Pokémon with guns” game from Japanese indie developer Pocketpair that made a big splash when it was released in January. The sheer fun gamers had playing Palworld propelled the game to massive profits and peak player counts. Palworld has been so successful that...

Stellar Blade Demo Had More Peak Players Than Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

AlexGherzo | Apr 15, 2024 | 1

The Stellar Blade demo is a hit. According to Push Square (which is a cool name for a video game website), the demo for the South Korean action game has “about 690,000 daily active users” on its best day. Not only is this a great number, but it’s leagues ahead of the latest release from one &...

Star Wars Outlaws Heroine’s Look Significantly Changed from Model

AlexGherzo | Apr 10, 2024 | 1

Remember the comments from games journalists that Eve, the heroine of Stellar Blade, was not a realistic woman because of her beauty? One even said the designer was “someone who has never seen a woman.” The reveal that not only was Eve designed by a woman but was a 1:1 body scan of another woman...

IGN Apologizes for IGN France Stellar Blade Comments

AlexGherzo | Apr 5, 2024 | 0

I guess anyone can be shamed sooner or later. If you’ll remember, IGN France published a review of the Stellar Blade demo that was released on March 29, 2024. While pretty much all games journalists are having conniption fits over the lead character, Eve, being rendered as a very attractive woman...