Tag: Kotaku
Xbox Global Marketing Head Calls Out “White Dudes”
Xbox is tired of all these white men in gaming. In an X post from March 27, 2024, Kelly Lombardi, Xbox’s global head of marketing, encouraged gamers who were “not a white man” to raise their hands because “minorities have to fight to prove they exist” in the gaming industry. Lombardi’s X...
Read MoreBBC 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 deve...
Read MoreAn Interview with Melonie Mac
Kotaku is going down fighting, and they’ve set their sights on Melonie Mac. Alyssa Mercante, the author of that Sweet Baby Inc. article that led (at least partly, one assumes) to Kotaku shifting its focus from news articles to video game guides, was caught trying to get dirt on Melonie on X, but w...
Read MoreKotaku 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....
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MorePlayStation Employee Tries to Cancel RGT 85
The entirely too familiar relationship between video game companies and games journalists is becoming clearer. YouTuber and gamer RGT 85, whose real name is Shawn (which he says in the video), recently discovered that PlayStation and Kotaku tried to deplatform him because he disagreed with – I’m...
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