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Paypigs revolt after glitch reveals “cute goddess”‘ real face — and age "Her Royal Highness" Qiao Biluo's false online representation tricked Chinese men out of oodles of cash, and now they're trying to charge it back.
Chinese paypigs are revolting after a popular female vlogger/livestreamer got tripped up by a glitch and fans learned her beauty filter had done more than merely enhancing existing qualities. The glitch happened on a July 25 DouYu stream, a Chinese game-centric livestreaming platform. The livestreamer, who goes by “Her Royal Highness Qiao Biluo” (乔碧罗殿下) to her 135,000 adoring fans, had covered her face with an anime picture while chatting with a cohost. At some point the computer dropped the superimposed picture and everyone was shocked to see her real face. Turns out Her Royal Highness — the “cute goddess” — is actually a 58 year old woman. Related: Landlord exposes…
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Woke at the GDC The Game Developers Conference is now about how games are to blame for every social ill — real or imagined.
Every year, game developers and the hangers-on parasites of the game industry get up on stage at Game Developers Conference to show the world how woke they are by parroting every social justice narrative known to personkind. No longer do they focus on video games and what they have to offer in terms of innovation and the kind of stuff gamers actually care about — like, you know, the gameplay. They instead talk about how games are to blame for every social ill, real or imagined. In the wake of the shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, a number of game industry luminaries attempted to blame it on the toxic gaming…
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Video game journalists are a joke Gamers don’t have a problem with challenge. Game journalists do, because they're lazy hacks — and because challenge itself engenders fundamental problems for their ideology.
Game journalists, you’re not the first to notice, are increasingly out of touch with the game-playing masses, yet there is no end in sight on their wailing about game difficulty or their transparent demand for art to conform to the demands of that very particular brand of corporate endorsed Woke ™ Social Justice ™ ideology. Given how well-trafficked their ideas are on social media, you can’t be blamed if you fall under the impression that games themselves are becoming more political — or politically correct. But the market speaks louder than words, and no amount of digital paper and wasted ink promoting a left-leaning narrative can change the fact that…
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Youtuber banned after hilarious murder—of female video game character Viral RDR2 video of feminist pixels being fed to alligator pixels was too much for YouTube in latest fiasco.
When Shirrako discovered an “annoying” suffragette in Red Dead Redemption 2, he thought it’d be funny to dispatch her in various creative ways and upload the clips to his YouTube channel about gaming. One of the videos showed his character using the cowboy game’s lasso to drag her to an alligator stationed outside town, which, it turns out, has a hankering for NPC meat. The video went viral right away, and that’s not always a good thing. Shirrako was now on the radar of self-appointed moral guardians eternally peregrinating the social medias for things to be offended by — journalists — and, yes, they pounced. VICE’s Motherboard vertical was the…
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These photographs make video game worlds look real The Continuous City is a book that looks at virtual environments through a different lens.
The above image is not an old photo of a street. It’s Grand Theft Auto V. You may well remember Gareth Damian-Martin’s stunning shots of Metroid Prime, originally taken for his digital zine Heterotopias. Beautiful video game screenshots are ten-a-penny, but Damian-Martin’s work is something quite different – not least in the fact they’re taken using an analogue camera – in looking to capture not just a specific image of a game, but the nature of that place. To catch some of that ambiguity around the edges that, in the memory, hazes over beloved places and almost makes them seem like they exist. Following the production of three issues of…
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“You are not a real gamer” The phrase has become a joke and a cliche - but when someone says "you're not a real gamer," what is it they're really saying?
The first time someone told me I wasn’t a real gamer, I was at a friend’s birthday party when I was 10 or 11. At this point I was a nerdy little girl, probably at the height of my childhood obsession with video games. I’d been playing them for long enough to figure out what it was that so enthralled me about them, and had started writing little reviews in my school notebooks in the style of the games magazines I read religiously. The accuser was an older boy, possessed of the casual, effortless cruelty that only 12-year-olds have, and he wouldn’t let me join in with Mario Kart 64…
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Destiny 2 is practically impossible to play if you’re a parent Bungie can do hunters, titans and warlocks alright, but it really struggles with the parent class.
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The game dev who cried wolf Indie developers feel it’s hard to get noticed, but trying to stir up fake scandal sets a terrible precedent.
Yesterday we at Kotaku UK did some great work, and also spent time on two potential stories that turned out to be busts. One of them I can’t write about, because we spent hours on what turned out to be bad information. Perils of the job. The second took only a few minutes to identify as fake news, in the modern parlance, so I moved on. Every day Kotaku UK receives dozens of tips, and both myself and our news editor Laura deal with an even larger volume of correspondence — mostly developers and PRs looking for coverage, but a good chunk of it is “I heard this” and “you should look…
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The story of Second Life’s long-abandoned Duran Duran universe No ordinary world.
The stories of Second Life and Duran Duran mirror each other in a strange kind of way. At their height, both enjoyed immense popularity, and both have slowly slipped out of the spotlight in recent times. Linden Lab’s life simulator was released back in 2003 and boasted a million regular users in its prime. Duran Duran, meanwhile, emerged when the New Romantics ruled the airwaves, and their albums went triple platinum. These days, neither commands the headlines they once did. In a way, it seems prudent that these two former titans of pop culture would sooner or later cross paths, and the Duran Duran Universe, an official Second Life world dedicated to the band, was the result.…
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17 years ago today, a wild Pikachu virus appeared! W32.Pokey.Worm was not very effective...
The Pikachu virus may be, according to people who know about these things, the first computer virus targeted at children. It was discovered on this day back in 2000, and the vector was an email with the subject line “Pikachu Pokemon”. It contained the body text “Pikachu is your friend” and an attachment called ‘PikachuPokemon.exe’. Those who opened the executable saw an image of a bouncing Pikachu and text stating “Between millions of people around the world I found you. Don’t forget to remember this day every time MY FRIEND.” The next time this user rebooted their computer, the worm would attempt to delete essential system directories and, if they used…
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