Stop referencing trademark law in a discussion about copyright.

*sigh*

They have copyright, what they don’t have is the trademark. Seems pedantic but it is a meaningful distinction

I’m going to get a little spoilery, but if we’re going to talk about religious trauma, let’s talk about Lae’zel.

This has bene Keighley’s excuse since day one though. This show has been around a long time, and every year he pulls the “We’re human and make mistakes and we’re still perfecting the show. We’ll do better next time.” The dude has been saying this every year for a decade. How long until he’s able to produce a polished…

Fast fashion sucks. Primark, H&M, Zara, Walmart, Target etc. If you’re paying $20 for a piece of clothing then that clothing is being made by slaves and using unsustainable materials.

Those speeches are literally the moment. That’s when you can drop what is close to your heart, what helped you drive your work and what made working hard. It’s meant to be emotional and personal. That includes things that are for some reason considered “political”. If people don’t want to hear it, that’s another…

Changing the color of your skin isn’t inherently racist yet people act like it is.

I am mainly wary of two things:

Yeah, they’re on the covers, but it creates mystery. After Fallout 1, everyone knew whose Power armor that was, and After 2 the same was true for the Enclave. The west coast Fallout covers never repeated same same image.

Contrast that with the other covers, every one is a shot of T-51 power armor from a different…

I may be over-attributing the bigotry of many to one person, but Persona 3, 4 and 5 were all directed by the Katsura Hashino, who also directed the egregiously transphobic Catherine. He’s still at Atlus, but directing games for a different team. I’m sort of hoping that with him out of the lead seat, these games could…

Phobia is not just “fear” in the traditional sense. Phobias are extreme and irrational aversions to something that are disproportionate to any actual threat the thing in question could pose.

I devoured Persona 5 Royal and Persona 4 Golden last winter and found them to be both remarkable, intelligent, compelling games with so much to say- but yeah, as a gay man, I was also let down by how they seemed to draw a line at queerness. Persona 4 is a bit more forgivable- it came out in 2008, after all, and I…

The unfortunate reality is that it is likely only going to get worse. Gamergate was nothing compared to sentient pond scum like Stephen Miller and his America First legal team who are currently suing any company they can find for any attempt to promote diversity in their industries. And you can see it in other forms…

This site regularly criticizes C-suite executives of gaming companies, and this article is explicitly about female journalists and developers. That’s the text of this article. Representation in this context refers to the gaming news desks that cover games and the development teams whose labor produces the games we all…

I’ve been watching a lot of noclip while I work, & I appreciate them talking to women like Lisette Titre-Montgomery of Double Fine, Jen Zee & Joanne Tran of Supergiant Games, & Lilith Walther of Bloodborne PSX.

If anyone deserves representation, it is they, whose labor produces the games we all love and play.

I’m a white man who has benefited greatly from my privilege over the years (even if I haven’t always been aware of it) so I know my voice probably shouldn’t be the loudest on this issue, but my god even I’m sick of how many talentless white men have infested this industry I love.