Tag: Kotaku
An Interview with Melonie Mac
Kotaku is going down fighting, and they’ve set their sights on Melonie Mac. Alyssa Mercante, the author of that Sweet Baby Inc. article that led (at least partly, one assumes) to Kotaku shifting its focus from news articles to video game guides, was caught trying to get dirt on Melonie on X, but w...
Read MoreKotaku Loses Editor-in-Chief Over New Focus on Gaming Guides
Kotaku is in a bit of trouble. Today, Kotaku’s editor-in-chief, Jen Glennon, resigned. Glennon announced this on X without going into detail, aside from saying, “Jim Spanfeller is an herb.” If you don’t know who that is, she’s referring to James J. Spanfeller Jr., the CEO of G/O Media Inc....
Read MoreThe Return of GamerGate | The GamerGate 2 Report
Nerdwars222 | Mar 21, 2024 | 6
All I wanted to do was laugh at some pronoun fluids and Canadians doing land acknowledgments and calling themselves “settlers.” Instead, I present to you a comprehensive, multi-part series on Gamergate, Sweet Baby Inc., and wokeness in video games. Please, play nice. During the dangerous process...
Read MorePlayStation Employee Tries to Cancel RGT 85
The entirely too familiar relationship between video game companies and games journalists is becoming clearer. YouTuber and gamer RGT 85, whose real name is Shawn (which he says in the video), recently discovered that PlayStation and Kotaku tried to deplatform him because he disagreed with – I’m...
Read MoreStuttering Craig Wants to Take Games Back
The rot in the video game industry and the journalists who cover it has reached critical mass. Apathy is rapidly fading in lieu of anger, and with it, a restlessness to do something about it. Stuttering Craig, co-founder of ScrewAttack, current host of the Side Scrollers podcast, and lifelong gamer...
Read MoreDan Vasc Started Gamergate 2.0
If you listen to games journalists, their favorite boogeyman, Gamergate, has been resurrected thanks to the attention Sweet Baby Inc. has garnered over its woke gaming content. Curators were started, videos and articles were made, and The Daily Wire even took notice, with every screeching internet h...
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