Tag: Gamers

Ubisoft Employee Shames Gamers for Mocking Them Amid Business Woes and Scandals

Ubisoft is in trouble, and it wants you to know that you’re the bad guy. At least, one of its employees does. Stevy Chassard, Ubisoft’s monetization director, posted (and later deleted) a message on his LinkedIn account chastising anyone who’s cheering on Ubisfot’s downward spiral – the fa...

Games Journalists Attack Gamers and Mark Kern

If you want to know how the recent reaction from gamers over the woke influence in video games – GamerGate 2, if you want to call it that – is going, take a look at the reaction from games journalists. They’re attacking gamers and Mark Kerns, the former Blizzard producer who goes by Grummz on ...

Bob Iger Was Right

Bob Iger was right – the word “woke” doesn’t mean what his critics may think it does. If you had told me ten years ago about how some new movie or video game was “woke,” I would have been like, “You speakin’ Chinese to me, bruh?” But deep down, I’d know what you meant. Today, &he...

Neckbeards Slay the Dragon

Being a neckbeard ain’t so bad. There are three kinds of people in our space of Geeks + Gamers: neckbeards, pussies, and asshole activists. Gamergate 2.0 started harmlessly enough. Wolverine is six feet tall now, and Deadpool is a pivotal piece of the Marvel Universe. SWEET! Give us more of this s...

Az vs. Act Man: A Requiem for the Haters from the Geeks and the Gamers

Geek cannibalizes gamer in a world devoid of brotherhood as the networks of whisper pump us with poison. View counts tally as consumers shuffle rage baits. The algorithm craves its blood, and we happily oblige.  Having your guts spilled on Twitter for spectacle is just another given Sunday in our s...

Interviewing Ryan Kinel of Geeks + Gamers

I recently sat down to chat with Geeks + Gamers very own Ryan Kinel. Blabbering Collector: Why did you join the Navy? What was your rank, and what did you do? Ryan: I joined the Navy in August of 2010. I joined for a few reasons. I didn’t know what I wanted to do after …

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