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BBC Video Game Commentator Wants a “Final Purge” of Gamers

AlexGherzo | Mar 26, 2024 | 3

Games journalists want you gone. You probably figured that already, but they’re coming right out with it now. On March 22, 2024, the consulting firm Black Girl Gamers posted on X about starting a Steam curator similar to Sweet Baby Inc. Detected that would list the games they were involved in deve...

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...

Stuttering Craig Wants to Take Games Back

AlexGherzo | Mar 18, 2024 | 0

The rot in the video game industry and the journalists who cover it has reached critical mass. Apathy is rapidly fading in lieu of anger, and with it, a restlessness to do something about it. Stuttering Craig, co-founder of ScrewAttack, current host of the Side Scrollers podcast, and lifelong gamer...

Sweet Baby Inc. Does Exactly What Gamers Think They Do

AlexGherzo | Mar 6, 2024 | 13

The Sweet Baby Inc. story isn’t going away, and now, gaming journalists are putting their shields up around the consultants. Earlier today, Kotaku published an article defending Sweet Baby Inc. and claiming to set the record straight and educate video game fans who don’t understand what Sweet Ba...

Gamergate Series in Development

Don Khan Swaylo | Oct 5, 2021 | 0

Because nothing else of a similar level of importance has happened to these weirdos, Deadline reports that Brianna Wu, in conjunction with Mind Riot Entertainment, will be working on a Gamergate series titled, because they are equal parts creative and victim, Gamergate! In case you forgot – or mov...