Mark Kern - Geeks + Gamers

Call of Duty’s Free Pride Month Bundle May Buy Activision a Lot of Trouble

AlexGherzo | Jun 3, 2024 | 0

Activision is kicking off pride month by opening itself up to a lawsuit – that is to say, another lawsuit. As part of what will assuredly be another interminable bout of rainbow marketing, the video game company (which is actually Activision Blizzard after the two companies merged) has released a ...

Stellar Blade Patch Introduces Uncensored Outfits

AlexGherzo | May 24, 2024 | 0

Have gamers won another battle against Sony? That’s in the eye of the beholder, but Mark Kern, the former Blizzard producer who goes by Grummz on social media, is declaring victory. To recap, Stellar Blade, a new game from upstart Korean developer Shift Up and distributed by Sony, features a class...

Assassins Creed Shadows Trailer Brings Controversy Over Black Samurai

AlexGherzo | May 15, 2024 | 2

Today, Ubisoft released a trailer for Assassins Creed Shadows, the next game in the seventeen-year-old video game franchise. But instead of getting gamers excited, it got them laughing at the latest ridiculous instance of forced diversity, which involves a big historical reach. Then, it stopped bein...

Microsoft Insider Reveals Truth Behind Bethesda Closings

AlexGherzo | May 9, 2024 | 0

Many were baffled when Microsoft shut down some Bethesda studios and combined others, which will result in plenty of layoffs. Now, someone with knowledge of the situation is letting people know what really happened. Brian Hilderbrand, the senior public relations manager at Microsoft, wrote a detaile...

The Aftermath of the Helldivers 2 Win

AlexGherzo | May 6, 2024 | 1

UPDATE: The screenshot posts from Kotaku writer Alyssa Mercante below were specifically about Saavy|Artist asking Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt some questions, and Pilestedt answering them and thanking her for being polite in her discourse. It’s unclear whether this happened before or after Sony�...

Gamers Backlash Hits Warhammer 40K and Stellar Blade

AlexGherzo | May 2, 2024 | 0

The backlash over recent woke gaming moves is massive. The first example is Warhammer 40K, which not only introduced female Custodes to the tabletop game’s lore but told fans who knew better that there were always female Custodes, which was just begging for the deluge of George Orwell invocations ...