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Forking hell: a decade of Devolver Digital "There was and is no ‘exit strategy' for us, nor for the vast majority of the developers we work with."
Devolver Digital is many things: a voice of the counterculture in video games, an outlet for independent creators with visions that rarely align with those of traditional publishers, a champion of the people that’s not afraid to mercilessly mock the games industry. But most of all, Devolver is a principled, well-run company that helped reshape indie publishing in less than a decade. Mike Wilson is Devolver’s ‘Funslinger-in-chief’ (hey, I didn’t come up with it), and was already an industry veteran when he co-founded the company in 2009 with Harry Miller, Rick Stults, Nigel Lowrie, and Graeme Struthers. Wilson’s career up to that point was an illustrious one: he’d helped launch Quake at id…
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Fortnite streamer MrDeadMoth slaps abusive wife on livestream, is arrested "I'll be out soon."
26-year-old Fortnite streamer Luke Munday, who goes by the handle MrDeadMoth, has been arrested and served with an Apprehended Violence Order after getting into a domestic violence situation with his wife during a livestream. In the video, embedded below, MrDeadMoth is seen sitting in front of his computer and attempting to play Fortnite while his wife is nagging for him to stop playing. When he refuses, she starts throwing household objects at him. After several minutes of drama and approximately 50 assurances that he’ll “be out soon” – which quickly turned into a meme – he is seen getting up and leaving the computer. The audience then hears MrDeadMoth slapping…
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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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Toeing China’s communist party line to own the gamers Game journalists' quest to one-up "entitled gamers" leads them to some strange places.
When it comes to censorship, China is an absolute mess. Despite becoming an economic superpower and embracing at least some parts of capitalism to enter the 21st century, the mentality of the Chinese government remains firmly authoritarian and deeply suspicious of humor. Let’s start with the Winnie the Pooh silliness. Chinese president Xi Jinping really, really doesn’t like being compared to the lovable character. Winnie’s fat, and so is the President. That’s no bueno. Memes about him looking a lot like the old bear began in 2013 when a picture of Xi and Obama walking together was juxtaposed with a picture of Winnie walking with Tigger. Xi was again compared…
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Diablo creator David Brevik spills the beans on Blizzard A noticeably drunk Brevik joins increasing number of former employees speaking out about the issues at Blizzard.
There’s no one else in the world who would know more about the company than the executives who used to work there, and they are now speaking out about the issues at Blizzard. The studio has come under fire for its treatment of its fans following the announcement of Diablo Immortal — a mobile game that no one in the Diablo community asked for. As I described in my previous video, the studio has come into the habit of burning its bridges with the community by focusing on making money and less on delivering quality products. Blizzard appears to have lost its way, and the reason why has been elaborated…
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Woke Twitter dances on Stan Lee’s grave The passing of the Marvel legend has triggered a frenzied competition in awfulness.
The woke brigade on Twitter consists, by far, of some of the most transparent clout chasers you’ll ever find in today’s social landscape. Today, the great, legendary Stan Lee left this hellish realm for the great beyond, and the immediate response from woke Twitter was to celebrate his death – with claims that he was a homophobe, a sexist, a racist, and every other problematic -ist you can think of. Their remarks are vile, to say the least. i have just been informed that he did not assault one woman but many — 𝔴𝔬𝔬𝔡𝔶 𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔫 𝔡𝔦𝔢, 𝔟𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥 (@Igbtsjade) November 12, 2018 Here we can see Thanos snapped his fingers and half…
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The spooky, gory, and gorgeous worlds of DOOM Sometimes, it pays to shoot pictures instead of demons.
DOOM is a game that does its best to encourage you to charge through its levels at full-speed, guns blazing, and it looks terrific in motion. And yet DOOM’s photo mode makes a compelling case for another equally rewarding but very different way of experiencing its blood-soaked arenas and gory hellscapes. With a button-press the frantic action freezes, and we are free to take a stroll among the corpses and go sightseeing in the abyss. Even the raging demons start behaving themselves, posing patiently for the camera until you get their best side. Even Doom Guy, it turns out, has time to stop and smell the bloody roses. DOOM has much to offer the hell-tourist. From…
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Confirmed: GOG employee fired after using trending hashtag Casual use of trending hashtag #WontBeErased triggered a doxing and harassment campaign that got social media manager Linko fired.
A joke or silly misunderstanding is all it takes to get fired these days. Disturbed people who feel inadequate and left behind by normal, healthy society coalesce into self-radicalizating echo chambers on the internet – and evolve into digital mobs itching for any opportunity to exact revenge against the world that hurt them. This is cancel culture. And cancel culture has now got popular GOG community manager Linko fired. Yes, the Polish company and CD Projekt subsidiary best known for selling classic PC games and offending the far too easily offended in what some have speculated – wrongly, it would seem – is a clever marketing strategy. I have already…
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From EA QA to Pokémon Go and beyond: the incredible career of E. Daniel Arey He's helped design some of gaming's greatest successes, and is just getting started.
From Naughty Dog to Pokémon Go, E. Daniel Arey has had a front row seat to some of gaming’s greatest successes. His career started ordinarily enough. Raised in Sacramento, California, Arey got into programming in high school and learned the basics of game design playing Dungeons & Dragons. A few years later, he landed his first industry job in the QA department at Electronic Arts. “I think it was less than 120 people when I joined. Trip Hawkins was still there,” Arey says. “I was starstruck.” Arey quickly climbed through the ranks to the position of lead tester, and relished the chance to provide more substantial feedback. Chuck Yeager’s Flight Simulator was…
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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. Watch this video on YouTube 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.…