The biggest blow with this news that a lot of gaming fans might miss is a lot of people from indie devs to journalists to all others losing the access to networking opportunities. E3 wasn’t just the outward facing multi billion dollar advertisement, there was a whole world behind the curtain that’s just going to get…

I think they want to avoid “FEMA puts people in camps” because enough morons in the real world actually think that already and there’s no reason to pour fuel on that fire and assist with the real life damage created by the terrible decisions those people make.

DJMiyuki rocks trance pretty hard most weekend nights on Twitch and I like to put her on and vibe while I do other stuff. Pretty cool!

It’s literally just who they are now. They have no actual policy goals beyond “Hurt People, Especially Minorities” so the rest of the time is spent raging against non-fuckable candy and rechargeable electronics.  

Ah!   My bad!  :(

I heard the remake was SUPER woke and bad because there’s a girl wearing a poofy jacket, and Nicole looks like an ugly old wrinkly 30 year old, and they added a black person on a poster!

Kotaku has a long eatablished history of reporting on things whether publishers like it or not—as any proper outlet covering an industry should! Truth is truth—which makes publishers and execs retaliate with blacklists or other petty behavior since the entire industry would MUCH rather just deal with “Influencers” it…

This was something that always irked me all the way back in Fable. It’s one thing to be an open ended game and let the player choose how to behave, but it’s entirely different when the player is a member of an *Institution* that...laregly seems to be completely apathetic if it generates good citizens or war criminals.…

There’s always a weird, gross subsection of capital ‘G’ Gamers who cheer any time the established games press takes a blow like this or shutters another site. They’re under the opinion—either grossly uninformed or deliberately so—that an Influencer culture is all gaming needs.

Journalist question: when these companies reach out to publications like Kotaku or Game Informer for permission to use quote snippets, is it standard practice for the outlet to follow-up and check to see how it’s used or is that generally not feasible as there’s no way of knowing exactly where/how the quote would show…

I felt the clicker scene was very good. Tense, well done practical effects, really showcased the horror aspect of the infection.

When the only people reviewing/writing about the games industry are youtubers wearing nine pieces of [Insert Game Here] merch sitting on sacks of cash from [Same Company] It’s going to be a sad sad day. And the disgusting part is I think too many fans of games will think that’s somehow a good thing...

It’s not inflation it’s price gouging. These companies are boasting record breaking profits, it’s literally just an experiment by the rich to see how much blood they can squeeze and get away with.  

Most game devs ARE still anonymous. Easy way to prove: Without googling, do you know who the combat design lead on Horizon Forbidden West is? Any of the six credited artists for Cult of the Lamb?

Game developers are largely anonymous.  Massive studio head/outspoken executive producer type people are not.  

Bro just fired ten thousand people, that’s like...the Ultimate cancelation.

Fuck off Spence....

If you were to make a movie with the American Government’s actual response to Covid, without having lived through it, everyone would say the writing was far-fetched and wildly unbelievable.

I mean...you’re not WRONG, but also our very phones are American spyware. I like to spread my information around to as many governments as possible, just to make it interesting.

This really does show how damn *powerful* CoD is. Modern Warfare 2 released on October 28th this year. Elden Ring released in February 25th this year.

“There are the people trying to create a new (always fascist) government or police force, the ragtag and widespread rebels trying to bring them down (with their graffiti symbol), and then a yet-unseen but more threatening group called The Raiders or somesuch.”

“but in an emotional association that’s wholly new for the HBO show, Joel, being held at gunpoint, flashes back to the soldier who killed Sarah and tried to kill him, before charging the FEDRA officer and beating him to death.”

Can I just say I hate it when shows do this? Like...the show established that tragic event…