You may have never heard of Take-Two Interactive before. But there is a very good chance you’ve heard of their video games — whether or not you’re even actually a gamer. From ubiquitous pop culture heavyweights like “Grand Theft Auto” and “Red Dead Redemption,” to annual tentpole sports games like NBA 2K (as well as a smattering […]
Well, I’ll give Jules Hardy this much: She’s now quite a bit more famous outside of her native Britain than she was one week ago. Hardy, if you’re not familiar with her (or them; she identifies as nonbinary and uses a variety of pronouns), was best known as BBC’s go-to gaming presenter, as well as […]
Nintendo and Pokémon fans alike are up in arms this week following news that the company will be heading in a more DEI-flavored direction. The consumer backlash to forced diversity in games and the political messaging often associated with it has caused quite a stir in the industry over the last few weeks, causing both […]
Defenders of gamers are using social media to shine the spotlight on a professor who has capitalized — handsomely — by cozying up to DEI warriors who see extremists in every nook and cranny of the video game world. Mark Kern, who helped design the wildly popular and enduring massive multiplayer video game “World of […]
For a number of centrist and conservative-leaning gamers, the mere existence of the far-left games site Kotaku has always been a peculiar issue. Despite nominally being a pop culture/video game site, Kotaku has always given off the air that it actually hates gamers and video games. At the very least, the site certainly looks down […]
Full disclosure: This writer deplores the board game “Monopoly.” It’s boring, takes forever, and I never win (yeah, yeah, skill issue). That being said, objectively speaking, it is inarguably one of the most popular and enduring board games in existence. The game, whose lineage can be traced back to 1903 and “The Landlord’s Game,” has […]
Want to know who is part of what is billed as “the leading international network researching the nexus between extremism and gaming?” The Extremism and Gaming Research Network no longer wants to tell you. Clicking on the members page that in the past displayed row after row of experts and government supporters, or at least […]
A transgender voice actor who thought a character in a popular video game would cater to his identification is calling for “reparations” after he learned the character model was a grotesque inhuman villain. The actor, Zoey Alexandria, said in a now-deleted post that he was voicing a character for an update to “Dead By Daylight,” […]
If you were a video gamer in the mid-2010s, there’s a genuine chance that you’ve already heard the term “GamerGate.” But just in case you haven’t, here’s a quick synopsis of the controversy via Wikipedia (and gee, do you notice a clear slant to this?): “Gamergate or GamerGate (GG) was a loosely organized misogynistic online […]
For as long as cinema has existed, people have tried to add additional dimensions to the traditional viewing experience. Obviously, most people are familiar with entertainment’s foray into 3D viewing. To put it mildly, the 3D viewing experience can be a mixed bag depending on a litany of factors, such as screen size or 3D […]
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