Author: Alex Gherzo
Star Wars Fans Accused of Hating Mace Windu and Finn
Every so often, someone kicks the hornet’s nest just to see what happens; that’s what I assume this is, at least. Today, a content creator called Okiro posted about racist sci-fi fans on X in response to another post about asking what fictional character “that it’s hate is forced.” Oiko po...
Read MoreStellar Blade Demo Had More Peak Players Than Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
The Stellar Blade demo is a hit. According to Push Square (which is a cool name for a video game website), the demo for the South Korean action game has “about 690,000 daily active users” on its best day. Not only is this a great number, but it’s leagues ahead of the latest release from one &...
Read MoreWarhammer 40K Introduces Female Custodes
It looks like Warhammer 40K was next on the identity politics checklist. The popular tabletop game will now have female members of a group called the Custodians. I’ve never played Warhammer 40K, so you’ll have to bear with me a little, but the Warhammer 40K Fandom Wiki defines the Custodians l...
Read MoreGames Journalists Attack Gamers and Mark Kern
If you want to know how the recent reaction from gamers over the woke influence in video games – GamerGate 2, if you want to call it that – is going, take a look at the reaction from games journalists. They’re attacking gamers and Mark Kerns, the former Blizzard producer who goes by Grummz on ...
Read MoreGrummz Reveals Another Way Community Managers Ruin Games
Former Blizzard producer Mark Kern, alias Grummz, has been talking about the ubiquity of video game community managers who have a clear sociopolitical agenda and say disturbing things about race and the gamers they’re supposed to interact with. I wrote about it a few days ago when Grummz posted ab...
Read MoreREVIEW: Civil War (2024)
[Insert lack of Marvel superheroes joke here.] Now that that’s out of the way, Alex Garland’s Civil War is a surprisingly smart movie, a film not about right and wrong so much as what would happen if a hellish civil war of the kind we mostly associate with third-world nations came to America, a...
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