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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.
You’re in the zombie nightmare of DayZ and about to be eaten by one of the charging undead when suddenly a helicopter appears. Its pilots – and simply owning a helicopter lets you know they’re big shots – gun down your pursuer and offer you a lift. What you don’t know is that instead of flying you to safety, your destination is the tiny, featureless Schadenfreude Island some 15km off the main coast of Chernarus. The only reason they’ve saved you is for the amusement of knowing you’re condemned to stand there until you waste away, and that they were smart enough to fool you. Griefing: it comes in many…
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The weirdest fighting games of all time Most fighting games have some degree of strangeness to them, but there are those who are downright bizarre.
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10 hilariously offensive Steam games you aren’t allowed to buy any more In memoriam the best of the worst banned games in Steam's storied history.
Long gone are the days of Steam Greenlight, where users could launch games into the highly lucrative Steam marketplace through sheer vote brigading. Gone too are the wild west days that followed in those glorious glasnost days of literally anyone being able to publish literally anything – as long as Gabe got his $100. It’s current year and Steam has embraced its mainstream status by doing what reputable platforms are supposed to do: adopting a Heckler’s veto editorial line guided by the illuminated coastal principles of NPR. So here it is, our memorial page to the most hilariously offensive games in Steam’s storied history. If you want to play any…
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10 Xbox things to remember on Xbox’s 15th anniversary Did you know the console was almost called 'Odyssey of the Mind'? Really.
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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.…
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Twitch forces black streamer to submit DNA analysis over african cooking show Another race flap is the last thing Twitch needs right now.
Streaming giant Twitch has caused outrage after banning an African-American girl for her Africa-themed cooking show and seeming to accuse her of being a white cultural appropriator. The girl – youtuber Brittany Venti – was then forced into the humiliating position of having to submit an actual DNA analysis to prove her descent, shocking Twitch Support screenshots reveal. “This is insanity,” Brittany shared on Twitter. “I can’t even talk about my own race on Twitch, I get told I’m not my own race and I can’t have a cooking stream based on REAL African and Haitian food that is WELL known and DOCUMENTED.” “I got banned for having an African…
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Tilting a pro female CS:GO team lol
Watch this video on YouTube So me and my friends got matched up against “Riot fe” CSGO team and won 16-14 on mirage. Here’s their hltv profile: https://www.hltv.org/team/7939/riot-fe Here is zon1q’s twitch account: https://go.twitch.tv/zon1q And marions: https://go.twitch.tv/mar1on423 Music: Offenbach – Can Can Music Some clarifications : About my POV – If you’re using ShadowPlay, you’ll understand me better. With ShadowPlay you can record the last minute or so (depends on how much u change it in the settings) of your gameplay, which is exactly why I have 1 clip from my POV but not the whole game Stream sniping: No neither I, nor my teammates stream sniped them, I cant…
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The dank, sometimes hilarious, world of Steam shovelware Stolen asset valor!
In the olden days, if you wanted to buy a new computer game you had to haul your ass down to an Electronics Boutique or a Babbage’s or whatever and take a box home. That obviously was less than ideal, so we’re thankful that Gaben and the boys at Valve came up with Steam. Steam’s great! But it also has a few pretty big problems. Because the company doesn’t make any pretensions towards quality control, certainly less than salubrious publishers use Steam as a place to dump cheaply-made games to make a quick buck. The dark and grimy world of these games is our latest culvert in our explorations of…
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The 11 most ridiculous Pokémon ever captured Not every pocket monster is a classic. Once you’ve run through the good ideas, you have to start looking a little deeper for inspiration.
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Resident Evil 7 offers a glimpse into Trump’s America Who knew a game could show such a prescient vision of what’s to come.
Since Donald Trump’s election victory, video game writers are finding new and innovative ways to shoehorn Trump’s name into their writing. Just look at Waypoint’s article about how Dishonored 2 is an allegory for Trump’s rise to power and Kotaku’s expose on how Steve Bannon used World of Warcraft gold farming in his plot to make America more racist. Even the Guardian included a Trump reference in their review of Resident Evil 7, calling the game a much needed escape from President Trump and Brexit. To stay current, Heat Street has instituted a 15 “Trump” mentions quota into every article we write about video games. So here we go: The…
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BlamerGate: The NYT blames video games for internet trolls Gaming is the new Rock ‘N’ Roll. Clearly of the devil.
What’s that? A reporter’s blaming video games for something? What will it be this time, another school shooting? The war on women? This year’s corn ain’t growing as fast as it used to… Nope. This time it’s all bad behavior on the internet ever. Call it Blamergate. Yes, Quentin Hardy of The New York Times blames internet trolls on gaming. The act of messing with people on the internet for one’s own amusement, harassing people anonymously, or giving false opinions to get a rise out of someone — there are many definitions of “trolling” — is the fault of those damn gamers! In the gaming community, griefing might include repeatedly killing the same player…
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“Taiwan #1!” AngryPug hilariously trolls Chinese H1Z1 cheater "Japan number two, China number four!"
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The best (worst) Watch Dogs multiplayer trolls Watch Dogs online has been designed to drive you nuts and here's a compilation of some amazing moments.
You’ve got to feel sorry for the guy being hacked as he swims after a boat always staying a few feet ahead. Watch Dogs online has been designed to drive you nuts and here’s a compilation of some amazing/infuriating moments, depending on which side you’re on. Watch this video on YouTube
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