Halo Composer Talks DEI in Video Games
In a recent video on his Andrew Says YouTube channel, Andrew Chapados interviewed Marty O’Donnell, the former composer of the Halo video games who created the Halo theme. O’Donnell is running for Congress, where he hopes to represent Nevada’s third congressional district in the House of Representatives, and given his experience in the video game industry, Chapados […]
Amandla Stenberg Makes a Music Video And… Yeah…
Amandla Stenberg, the star of the new Star Wars show The Acolyte, is striking back at people who don’t like the show – or people “flooding [her] with intolerant racism.” Yesterday, in honor of Juneteenth, Stenberg released a music video online, one she says she made in 72 hours, and it was… strange. It’s being blocked from […]
Japanese Gamers Not Happy With Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Despite games journalists’ insistence that it’s only racist Americans who have a problem with Assassin’s Creed Shadows, evidence is piling up that Japanese gamers are not happy with the depiction of their culture either. During Monday’s Ubisoft Forward presentation, the company unveiled an extended trailer for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, showing off the gameplay and the […]
Kotaku Writer Challenges Gamers to a Fight, Then Changes her Mind
Want to see one of the funnier stories in the cold war between gamers and games journalists? Don’t worry; it won’t take long. This is the saga of Alyssa Mercante throwing down the gauntlet to gamers… and then quickly picking it back up. You remember Alyssa Mercante, right? She’s the Kotaku journalist whose name everyone’s […]
Voice Actors Say Only Gay People Can Play Their Games During Pride Month
Video game voice actors are having a normal one, specifically three from Valorant and Overwatch 2. If you haven’t been reminded enough to remember by now, it’s pride month, and shooters seem particularly interested in making their players aware. (I have a theory about this: these games tend to attract masculine gamers.) Activision has rainbow-colored guns […]
Stellar Blade Patch Introduces Uncensored Outfits
Have gamers won another battle against Sony? That’s in the eye of the beholder, but Mark Kern, the former Blizzard producer who goes by Grummz on social media, is declaring victory. To recap, Stellar Blade, a new game from upstart Korean developer Shift Up and distributed by Sony, features a classically beautiful female protagonist named […]