BBC Video Game Commentator Wants a “Final Purge” of Gamers
Games journalists want you gone. You probably figured that already, but they’re coming right out with it now. On March 22, 2024, the consulting firm Black Girl Gamers posted on X about starting a Steam curator similar to Sweet Baby Inc. Detected that would list the games they were involved in developing. Another X user […]
Of Games, Engines, and Culture Wars: A 2024 GDC Retrospective
Something is rotten in the streets of San Francisco. Excrement bakes into the asphalt as the light of day burns the refuse into the asphalt. Needles pile from wasted years of moral highs. The Game Developers Conference has wrapped. Elbow rubbed elbow and jerk rubbed jerk among the usual crowd playing their game of Monopoly. […]
Video Game Developers Ditch Sweet Baby Inc.
You know all those social media posts about cutting toxic people out of your life and the lack of guilt that should be associated with such? Perhaps the video game industry should consider it. During their appearance on Tuesday Night’s Main Event (which you can watch on the Geeks + Gamers YouTube channel every Tuesday […]
Kotaku Loses Editor-in-Chief Over New Focus on Gaming Guides
Kotaku is in a bit of trouble. Today, Kotaku’s editor-in-chief, Jen Glennon, resigned. Glennon announced this on X without going into detail, aside from saying, “Jim Spanfeller is an herb.” If you don’t know who that is, she’s referring to James J. Spanfeller Jr., the CEO of G/O Media Inc., which owns Kotaku, as well […]
The Return of GamerGate | The GamerGate 2 Report
All I wanted to do was laugh at some pronoun fluids and Canadians doing land acknowledgments and calling themselves “settlers.” Instead, I present to you a comprehensive, multi-part series on Gamergate, Sweet Baby Inc., and wokeness in video games. Please, play nice. During the dangerous process of researching this story, I stumbled my way into […]
Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra Trailer Teams Captain America and Black Panther
Marvel video games are going back in time. Today, Marvel and Skydance New Media released a trailer for an upcoming game called… brace yourself for this one… Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, based on (or “inspired by”) a comic book limited series called Captain America/Black Panther: Flags of our Fathers. The story, which was written […]