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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...

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...

Dan Vasc Started Gamergate 2.0

AlexGherzo | Mar 14, 2024 | 7

If you listen to games journalists, their favorite boogeyman, Gamergate, has been resurrected thanks to the attention Sweet Baby Inc. has garnered over its woke gaming content. Curators were started, videos and articles were made, and The Daily Wire even took notice, with every screeching internet h...

Black Panther Video Game Developer Doesn’t Hire White People

AlexGherzo | Mar 12, 2024 | 0

Wakanda is more exclusive than we thought. Video game studio Cliffhanger is developing a Black Panther game for Marvel, for which it said it was putting together a team consisting of “veterans of top franchises including Halo Infinite, God of War, Call of Duty and others.” Well, one of these vet...

An Interview with Sweet Baby Inc. Detected Creator Kabrutus

AlexGherzo | Mar 7, 2024 | 147

The last week of gaming news has centered on Sweet Baby Inc. Detected, a Steam curator that lists all the video games consulting company Sweet Baby Inc. has worked on. There was a ridiculous overreaction to what seems like it should be a minor issue to people who work on God of War and DC Comics &h...

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...