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CliffyB: my game sucks because of gangstalkers from 4chan "Fun fact."
Radical Heights tanked — hard. The ambitious video game by Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski (better known as “CliffyB”) attempted to bank on the Battle Royale genre of video games, but it came out several years too late with too few features to set it apart from the crowd. It didn’t stand a chance against Fortnite, which it borrowed much of its aesthetic from — and offered too little to set it apart from the likes of the numerous other games that try, and fail, to dethrone Epic Games’ mega money maker. Instead of simply accepting failure, Bleszinski now blames Radical Heights’ failure on 4chan. In a series of…
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Ion Fury bows to ResetEra mob, will donate $10k to LGBTQIA movement over dev’s Discord comment Ion Fury dev busted saying he doesn't think babies should be gender reassigned.
“The mother of idiots is always pregnant.” That’s a classic Romanian saying and it seems that Planned Parenthood is clearly not doing its job any more. Consider a little game called Ion fury, where one of the developers was recently caught saying something so incredibly outrageous and shocking on Discord that you might want to take the children out of the room before you read on. “if you’re trying to decide the child is trans at birth you have mental problems and probably shouldn’t be a parent imo” Predictably the decent folk over at ResetEra started a harassment campaign against the monster. Voidpoint Interactive, for which he works, in response…
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ESA doxes over 2,000 journalists and content creators attending E3 The accidentally released excel sheet contains names, e-mails, phone numbers, and addresses.
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has doxxed over 2,000 E3 media attendees by accidentally posting a list containing their sensitive personal data. The excel sheet, first revealed by independent game journalist Sophia Narwitz, contains the names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and private residences of media attendees ranging from journalists to content creators. It has been available online and linked to on a publicly viewable page on ESA’s website since the most recent E3 in June, and only 404’d after Narwitz contacted the ESA to inform them of the privacy breach. We can confirm that at the time of posting, the list remains publicly available on archive websites. According to a…
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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. Watch this video on YouTube Turns out Her Royal Highness – the “cute goddess” – is actually a 58 year…
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Obsidian doesn’t want Outer Worlds to be a ‘politically-charged game’ The freshmaker.
Leonard Boyarsky, the creative director of Obsidian Entertainment’s upcoming RPG, The Outer Worlds, says that the game will not shove politics down your throat. The creator, who is responsible for the original Fallout, Arcanum, and Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, says he intends to bring the same amount of depth to the science fiction-based setting as his previous works. Set in a cyberpunk-inspired future where mega-corporations colonize the outer regions of space, the game’s commentary does not focus entirely on the “evils” or depredations of capitalism, and will instead offer nuance. Boyarsky says that the studio is “very careful” to not “lecture” players with its themes. Speaking to Video Games Chronicle,…
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Stranger Things portals have started appearing in Fortnite Hide your credit cards, moms and dads of the world.
With this 4th of July marking the release of a new season of Stranger Things, alongside it came a lot of marketing tie-ins, including with massively popular video game Fortnite. The Fortnite–Stranger Things cross-over is without an exclusive limited time game mode associated with previous Fortnite promotions such as for Avengers End Game, John Wick, and Nike Air Jordan, but they instead added lots of Stranger Things easter eggs such as “the upside down” portals, and the Scoops Ahoy Ice Cream Parlor. Alongside the in-game easter eggs came new Stranger Things skins which include “Chief Hopper” for 1,500 V-bucks, “Demogorgon” for 1,200 V-bucks, and weapon wrap “Vines” which goes for…
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5 great all time classic games you can play online
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Twitch now permabanning users for referring to World of Warcraft’s ‘naga’ characters Reptilian-azerothians?
Twitch has permabanned a whole slew of users for referring to World of Warcraft’s snake-like monster race called nagas. Twitch, which apparently has never heard of the world’s most popular MMO despite it being constantly streamed to high view counts, believes ‘naga’ is a secret conspiracy code word referring to black people. The situation is believed to have started with a (now deleted) clip of Savix_Tv, in which he says he “shot that Naga.” The context was following – We were hosting a streamer called Savix, and we were going to spam "Shot that nagas PogYou", and the reason behind that is because we referred to a clip of Savix…
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The 11 hardest survival simulators Casuals, stay away. These are the survival games that make staying alive difficult.
In a world careening towards ecological apocalypse, survival games are obviously hitting a nerve in the zeitgeist, and developers are responding by making them increasingly tougher to prepare us. Here are my picks for the 11 titles on the market that make staying alive the most difficult. Survisland Watch this video on YouTube One of the most popular settings for survival games is the deserted island – a natural barrier of impassable water gives the game map a logical border, and islands can include multiple distinct biomes for a variety of foraging experiences and environmental challenges. 2018’s Survisland boasts procedurally generated maps, so your castaway existence is different each time you…
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Making yourself at home in Morrowind A reminiscence about grand adventures in real estate.
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