Tag: Take Games Back
The Game Awards Nominations Are Surprising
The Game Awards are making a play for respectability. The video game awards show is known for nominating games for sociopolitical reasons rather than their merit, sales, or popularity with gamers, and often snubbing games that many thought would be a shoo-in for recognition. This year, it was assume...
Read MoreStuttering Craig Announces The Real Game Awards
In March, Stuttering Craig, the co-founder of Screw Attack and host of Side Scrollers, announced “Take Games Back,” an initiative aimed at wresting video game culture from the hands of hostile corporate and media interests and giving it back to gamers. The first part of this push Craig announced...
Read MoreSide Scrollers Stopped on YouTube While Talking Politics in Gaming
It’s not paranoia if they’re really out to get you. Today on Side Scrollers, the video gaming podcast hosted by Stuttering Craig and the Blabbering Collector, Craig and Blabs were joined by guests BX and Gothix to discuss some disturbing current events. BX is an independent investigator who was ...
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...
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