Tag: identity politics
IGN Says Resident Evil 5 is Racist
Ever read a headline people are freaking out about and think it’s an overreaction till you actually read the article? Yesterday, IGN published a piece titled “The Resident Evil Game That Can’t Be Remade.” For its first few paragraphs, it’s just your run-of-the-mill opinion piece about why ...
Read MoreMatt Walsh Brings Video Game Infiltration Mainstream
Some more prominent names are starting to take an interest in the video game industry and what companies like Sweet Baby Inc. are doing to it – and doing through it. X is aflutter this morning over Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire devoting a large segment of his podcast, The Matt Walsh Show, to the &...
Read MoreX-Men ’97 Showrunner Beau DeMayo Fired by Marvel
Can the new “non-binary” Morph turn take the form of a pink slip? I doubt the people behind it care enough to know, but at least one of them doesn’t have his hands on the X-Men anymore. The Hollywood Reporter exclusively reveals that Beaut DeMayo, the showrunner of the upcoming Disney+ Marve...
Read MoreBenny Johnson Asks Superheroes Who They’re Voting For
Perception and reality are often at loggerheads, and that’s true of the geek community as much as anywhere else. It’s generally assumed that fans of sci-fi, video games, and comic books are largely left-leaning, not only because entertainment now speaks almost exclusively to that contingent (and...
Read MoreDisney Still Thinks the Audience is the Problem
Time and again, Hollywood sends the message that it refuses to learn from its mistakes. Sonny Bunch, the culture editor at The Bulwark, posted a screenshot of something Matt Belloni of Puck shared in his newsletter. It’s a direct message Belloni received from “a Disney executive” talking about...
Read MoreTomb Raider I-III Remastered Comes with Racism Disclaimer
If you liked the old Tomb Raider games, you should be ashamed of yourself. That’s what Crystal Dynamics thinks, anyway. The video game developer, which now produces the series, is about to release Tomb Raider I-III Remastered; those games were made before Crystal Dynamics was given the Tomb Raide...
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