Tag: video games
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 playin...
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 MoreCulture War Update: A Glance into the Mirror as the Blood Splatters
The other day, I wrote an article that I’m regretting. Blood was in the water, targets were exposed, backs were turned, and I found myself driving the knife… It’s easy to get angry, to let the madness of the day fuel a building desire for revenge, to find excuses to wage war against those ...
Read MoreVideo 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 ...
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...
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