Category: Video Games
Xbox Global Marketing Head Calls Out “White Dudes”
Xbox is tired of all these white men in gaming. In an X post from March 27, 2024, Kelly Lombardi, Xbox’s global head of marketing, encouraged gamers who were “not a white man” to raise their hands because “minorities have to fight to prove they exist” in the gaming industry. Lombardi’s X...
Read MoreSide Scrollers Stopped on YouTube While Talking Politics in Gaming
It’s not paranoia if they’re really out to get you. Today on Side Scrollers, the video gaming podcast hosted by Stuttering Craig and the Blabbering Collector, Craig and Blabs were joined by guests BX and Gothix to discuss some disturbing current events. BX is an independent investigator who was ...
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Product Inclusion Guide
robot_boob | Mar 27, 2024 | 0
Microsoft has recently gone down the DEI rabbit hole. Apparently, their research has led them to believe that customers want to be “seen.” One of their goals is to “Incorporate stories and themes from marginalized communities or emerging markets in a relatable way.” They are under the assump...
Read MoreBlack Girl Gamers Threatens Legal Action Over Claims of Discrimination
Another video game consulting firm may be edging Sweet Bay Inc. out of the spotlight. Attention is now shifting to Black Girl Gamers, the group whose response to criticism spurred BBC game commentator Jules Hardy to ask that the video game community have a “final purge” and “full detox” of e...
Read MoreBBC Video Game Commentator Wants a “Final Purge” of Gamers
Games journalists want you gone. You probably figured that already, but they’re coming right out with it now. On March 22, 2024, the consulting firm Black Girl Gamers posted on X about starting a Steam curator similar to Sweet Baby Inc. Detected that would list the games they were involved in deve...
Read MoreOf Games, Engines, and Culture Wars: A 2024 GDC Retrospective
IllTemperedTuna | Mar 25, 2024 | 0
Something is rotten in the streets of San Francisco. Excrement bakes into the asphalt as the light of day burns the refuse into the asphalt. Needles pile from wasted years of moral highs. The Game Developers Conference has wrapped. Elbow rubbed elbow and jerk rubbed jerk among the usual crowd playin...
Read More
