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Stellar Blade Patch Introduces Uncensored Outfits
Have gamers won another battle against Sony? That’s in the eye of the beholder, but Mark Kern, the former Blizzard producer who goes by Grummz on social media, is declaring victory. To recap, Stellar Blade, a new game from upstart Korean developer Shift Up and distributed by Sony, features a class...
Read MoreThe Aftermath of the Helldivers 2 Win
UPDATE: The screenshot posts from Kotaku writer Alyssa Mercante below were specifically about Saavy|Artist asking Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt some questions, and Pilestedt answering them and thanking her for being polite in her discourse. It’s unclear whether this happened before or after Sony�...
Read MoreGamers Backlash Hits Warhammer 40K and Stellar Blade
The backlash over recent woke gaming moves is massive. The first example is Warhammer 40K, which not only introduced female Custodes to the tabletop game’s lore but told fans who knew better that there were always female Custodes, which was just begging for the deluge of George Orwell invocations ...
Read MoreGames Journalist Tricked Into Reporting Fantastical Grummz Story
Games journalists may have developed a condition we can call GDS, or Grummz Derangement Syndrome. Grummz is the social media handle for Mark Kern, a former Blizzard producer who has been leading the charge to remove DEI and wokeness from gaming in what has been dubbed “GamerGate 2” (the real mas...
Read MoreSandbox Sim Farm Folks Tries to Have Fun, Apologizes
The newest instance of video games having the fun sucked out of them occurred over the past couple of days. Have you ever heard of Farm Folks? I hadn’t until today, but it’s been around for five years. It’s sort of like a Sim City type of game where you manage the various aspects of a &hellip...
Read MoreShift Up Responds to Stellar Blade Censorship
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...
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