Mark Kern - Geeks + Gamers

Shift Up Responds to Stellar Blade Censorship

AlexGherzo | Apr 27, 2024 | 1

As gamers react to the censored version of Stellar Blade, Shift Up CEO Kim Hyeong-tae and technical director Lee Dong-gi answered some questions about their game’s release, and inevitably, the costume change came up. Kim Hyeong-tae explained it like this (translation via packergirl, and I’m grat...

Warhammer 40K Wiki Lore Changed, Discord Telling Longtime Fans to Leave

AlexGherzo | Apr 19, 2024 | 3

Warhammer 40K is gaslighting its longtime fans. A few days ago, the popular tabletop game – or, more specifically, the company that owns it, Games Workshop – introduced female Custodes into the game, something that longtime players pointed out broke with the game’s intricate lore. Games Works...

Warhammer 40K Introduces Female Custodes

AlexGherzo | Apr 15, 2024 | 1

It looks like Warhammer 40K was next on the identity politics checklist. The popular tabletop game will now have female members of a group called the Custodians. I’ve never played Warhammer 40K, so you’ll have to bear with me a little, but the Warhammer 40K Fandom Wiki defines the Custodians l...

Games Journalists Attack Gamers and Mark Kern

AlexGherzo | Apr 14, 2024 | 0

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 ...

Grummz Reveals Another Way Community Managers Ruin Games

AlexGherzo | Apr 12, 2024 | 0

Former Blizzard producer Mark Kern, alias Grummz, has been talking about the ubiquity of video game community managers who have a clear sociopolitical agenda and say disturbing things about race and the gamers they’re supposed to interact with. I wrote about it a few days ago when Grummz posted ab...

Grummz Calls Out Video Game Community Managers

AlexGherzo | Apr 7, 2024 | 4

The war on gamers continues, as fought by the video game industry that needs their money to survive. Grummz, the X account and online handle of former Blizzard producer Mark Kern, has been highlighting the disgusting behavior of various video game community managers who are attacking gamers based on...