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EA Games under fire for ‘blacklisting’ critical Anthem reviewers Explosive allegations by Australian video game reviewer shines a light on open games industry secrets.
“Destiny killer” Anthem is facing scathing criticism and it seems that instead of making promises to improve the game, EA Games has decided to hit its critics where it hurts. Their wallets. Youtuber Gggmanlives, whose game reviews have garnered an impressive 212k subscribers, earlier today alleged that his negative review of the game prompted the entertainment giant to blacklist his channel from future cooperation. While most youtubers who review games care little about any company’s feelings, those who do it as a career depend on early previews to draw an audience and stay relevant. This early access – as well as other benefits like exposure and giveaways – is often…
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Leave me alone: speaking out against the rise of co-op The once separate worlds of singleplayer and multiplayer are merging – but there's nothing wrong with playing alone.
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What’s so scary about the 90s? The best horror games look to the nineties not as a rough draft to be improved upon, but something terrifying in and of itself.
With the release of Capcom’s hyper-realistic remake of Resident Evil 2, the most 1998 of all nightmares has been updated into sterling HD. Watch this video on YouTube But last year, the most impressive horrors looked to 1998 not as a rough draft to be improved upon, but as something potent and terrifying in and of itself. With Paratopic, OK/NORMAL, September 1999 and DUSK gathered ‘round the pre-rendered ouija board, the ghosts of John Romero and Keiichiro Toyama were summoned, rumbling into video games like fatty pink cacodemons to haunt the low-lit corridors their works helped inspire. Each descendant offers a different kind of scare. Paratopic, Arbitrary Metric’s lauded walking sim…
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The 30 moments that defined the video game industry From consoles to genres, from lawsuits to graphics, these are the 30 big moments that define the video game industry—from 1977 to the early 00s.
Metroid Prime like you’ve never seen it before An extract from the new issue of Heterotopias.
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Discord has a furry pedophile problem 'Furry' pedophile groups survived the Discord purges despite hundreds of reports. Then activists uncovered a nest of furry admins within Discord, Inc itself.
Discord is the framework behind modern online communities. The $2 billion dollar startup claims to have 150 million users, 90 million of which log in daily to share pictures and talk with other fans of their favorite youtuber, hobby, game – or sex fetish. Everyone understands that a user base of that size is inevitably going to have its share of undesirables, including pedophiles, and finding ways to effectively deal with them is always going to be a problem. But a new kind of problem arises when the platform is incapable – or even unwilling – to reasonably protect itself. According to Forbes, Discord is probably way past that point…
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The magic of video game cartography Video game maps shift and redraw the borders between real and imaginary.
The bittersweet (and sour) search for Chinese representation in games Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan may be symbols of pride for Chinese people, but you don't quite feel that when passing idiots shout their name at you.
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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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10 reasons Alien: Isolation is the greatest survival horror game ever made I really loved about this game. But I’m writing this with all the lights in my house on.
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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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How Fable Legends took down Lionhead An in-depth look at the development of a legendary British studio's final, unreleased game.
The 11 craziest video game feats ever captured on video These 11 videos show people taking ordinary video games and making them truly extraordinary.
A history of griefing: gamers who ruin your day for kicks Sometimes it’s purely for fun, sometimes it’s to make a point, and sometimes it’s even to make a profit.
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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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The magic of video game cartography Video game maps shift and redraw the borders between real and imaginary.
The largest ever MMO battle—3000 players!—was an accident Someone forgot to pay rent, resulting in a space battle involving over 3000 players and $300k worth of the game's currency gone forever.
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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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Finish Him! The innovative violence that fueled Mortal Kombat’s success A journey from its start as a failed experiment to re-birth as a predestined success built by the vision and innovation of its Midway Games developers.
Why is hating games a prerequisite for video game criticism? Smug elitists take issue with the idea of video games as art.
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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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15 completely awesome old school video game commercials Blast to the past.
17 years ago today, a wild Pikachu virus appeared! W32.Pokey.Worm was not very effective...
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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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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A Call of Duty youtuber is livestreaming his legs literally rotting away 2020 UPDATE: THEY'RE MELTING!—Diabetic drunkard ONLYUSEmeBLADE refuses to seek treatment for the rapidly expanding sores, which are being cheered on by "leg hole" fans as they gradually consume his discolored limbs in daily livestreamed updates.
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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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Video game research shows you’re past your peak already at 25 Scientists have been using video games to study reaction speeds as people age and have discovered that it all starts to fall apart at 24.
No, game journos, Grand Theft Auto doesn’t make you sexist False interpretations of already worthless and pseudoscientific studies. But hey — narrative.
Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack sucks. Play N64 games these 5 ways instead You can pay Nintendo $50 to play N64 games on your Switch, but you shouldn't.
