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Embattled YIIK dev says only 4chan understands his game Are we all snowflakes now?
Andrew Allanson, the creator of YIIK: A Postmodern RPG, alleges on The Dick Show podcast that a far left campaign against his game is spreading pirated copies and attempting to get Nintendo to issue a cease and desist for the game’s homage to the late Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata. The campaign is also spreading accusations of transphobia because the game contains the question, “What name did your parents give you?” and a “That’s our word” joke uttered by the main character after someone uses the word ‘ginger’ is also deeply problematic. The controversies being stoked by the genderbending activists has resulted in other developers deleting positive remarks made about the…
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Microsoft does away with discs with the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition Nothing but games as a service on the horizon.
Optical media is on its way out, and video game consoles are leading the way. Specifically, Microsoft’s new Xbox One S All-Digital Edition will be the first real gaming console without any sort of disc media whatsoever. Got a hard copy of Halo 5? You won’t be able to run it on here. Instead, owners of the new console will have to buy into the long-dreaded “games as a service” effort that both publishers and console manufacturers have been trying to push on gamers for about a decade since everyone figured out that DLCs and microtransactions sell way better than single-purchase games. Microsoft first tried to go down the online-only…
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Nintendo cracks down on political Super Smash Bros Ultimate stages, including LGBT and mockery of 9/11 “We want people to smile and have fun when they play our games.”
Nintendo has started issuing bans to players for promoting transgender activism in their hit fighting game, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The game’s most recent update added the ability for players to design their own custom stages to do battle in, and the feature was immediately seized upon by the denizens of Tumblr and the ResetEra forums who used it as a medium to promote transgenderism by designing stages resembling the transgender flag, usually accompanied by the words “TRANS RIGHTS.” Players who submitted and shared these levels were handed 9-hour suspensions. Similar bans were issued to players who posted designs featuring sexualized imagery, the Nazi flag, and caricatures of the World…
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Kotaku is getting raked over Laura Kate Dale’s “retarded” fake news piece And now everybody is throwing everybody else under the bus.
Kotaku editor Laura Kate Dale is up to old tricks again, this time with a fake news and conspiracy theory double whammy about a Super Smash Bros song using the word “retarded.” The claim was made in an article titled “Super Smash Bros Ultimate’s Persona 5 DLC includes a disability slur” which states: “Part of the DLC pack’s addition includes a number of Persona music tracks, which can be listened to in full outside of battle. However, one of these tracks caught our attention for all the wrong reasons. In the track ‘Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There’, if you skip to around 1:48 into the track, you’ll reach…
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Could Jedi Fallen Order revive Star Wars video games? Star Wars — as a video game franchise — has been long dead thanks to EA Games’ mishandling.
From mobile cash grabs to lackluster multiplayer games that feel more like reskins of Battlefield than games with their own character, Star Wars as a video game franchise struggles to attain the relevance it once had. Gone is Knights of the Old Republic, one of the best role-playing games of all time, and arguably BioWare’s greatest production. Old school gamers will even recall X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter, which paved the way for masterpieces like Descent FreeSpace 2 and Freelancer. And who could forget the Jedi Knight games, which brought lightsaber duels to the PC? Needless to say, Star Wars has had its greats, but the only games we’ve had since…
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The games that dare to sail the dark seas The humbling grandeur of the ocean: a place eternally unknowable, and indifferent to the fortunes of the seafarers it both sustains and destroys.
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Eve Online developer under fire for banning real-world politician "Spaceships have never been seriouser business."
Eve Online studio CCP Games has come under fire for banning real-world GOP politician Brian Schoeneman. The veteran politician and Eve Online player ran for a seat in Eve Online’s in-game representative council and won, but was removed and banned from the game after CCP Games said it received evidence showing that the Schoeneman, who went by the name Brisc Rubal in-game, had breached a non-disclosure agreement with the studio. Schoeneman denies the allegation. The massively multiplayer game has been the subject of many a write-up about its in-game politics and its unique gameplay, which encourages players to devote hundreds of hours every year to building a virtual community. The…
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Gaming’s most persistent myths and urban legends, debunked From blowing in cartridges to Lara Croft nude cheats and the secret Windows95 devil program. I’m sure you believe in at least one of these falsehoods.
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Ubisoft pledges €500,000 to rebuild Notre Dame Also grab a free copy of Assassin’s Creed: Unity.
The France-based game publisher Ubisoft, best known for its Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed video games, has pledged to donate €500,000 ($564,000 USD) to help rebuild the Notre Dame Cathedral. The almost 1,000-year-old cathedral was severely damaged in a fire earlier this week that consumed its main spire, the entirety of its roof, and much of its wooden interior. The studio, which faithfully recreated the historic site in Assassin’s Creed: Unity, is also offering the game for free on Ubisoft’s Uplay until April 25th to gamers on the PC to honor the iconic Parisian landmark. “We want to give everyone the chance to experience the majesty and beauty of Notre…
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Apple is spending ~$500 million on Arcade exclusives Massive bid for market share also includes special perks for game devs to keep their titles off rival platforms.
Apple is on the ball with its effort to expand its influence in the gaming industry with the introduction of its upcoming Arcade service, and it’s said to be spending “hundreds of millions” of dollars – up to about $500 million in total – to secure exclusive games for the subscription-based platform. Financial Times quoted sources (paywalled link) stating that the tech giant is already spending “several” million dollars for each game it picks up, and is offering game developers special perks if they agree to keep their titles off Google’s rival platform, even console subscriptions like the Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus. For its part, Apple has declined…
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Sony reveals next-gen PlayStation 5, confirms backwards compatibility, raytracing and 8K 2020 at the earliest.
Fans of Sony’s leading games console, the PlayStation 4, have long awaited a successor to the popular platform that’s delivered everything from Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us to last year’s smash hits, Spider-Man and God of War. They will soon be getting their wish as Sony made a surprise info dump revealing their “next-generation plans” for the gaming world, which fans are unofficially referring to as the PS5. In an exclusive interview with PlayStation’s lead architect Mark Cerny, Wired got the first word of Sony’s plans to take their gaming endeavors to the next generation. The bad news is that it won’t be out this year, but the…
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Youtuber arrested after brandishing gun, threatening to kill pedestrians during IRL stream The trashy drama never stops with Andy Warski & co.
Andy Warski is once again in trouble after a YouTube livestream shows the Canadian streamer and his “Dream Team” cohosts earning money from starting trouble and drawing a firearm on a group of Clearwater, Florida pedestrians. The confrontation started when Warski streamed himself and two cohosts – “Alex” and “Failure” – playing offensive text-to-speech at people in downtown Clearwater. As is the norm in IRL streaming, Warski’s phone loudly reads out messages and even audio clips from anyone sending in donations, and the more outrageous and dangerous the host allows it to get, the more the entertained viewers donate. In the case of alt-right adjacent Warski, most of the donated…
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