Tag: video games

Side Scrollers Stopped on YouTube While Talking Politics in Gaming

AlexGherzo | Mar 28, 2024 | 4

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 ...

Black Girl Gamers Threatens Legal Action Over Claims of Discrimination

AlexGherzo | Mar 27, 2024 | 6

Another video game consulting firm may be edging Sweet Bay Inc. out of the spotlight. Attention is now shifting to Black Girl Gamers, the group whose response to criticism spurred BBC game commentator Jules Hardy to ask that the video game community have a “final purge” and “full detox” of e...

BBC Video Game Commentator Wants a “Final Purge” of Gamers

AlexGherzo | Mar 26, 2024 | 3

Games journalists want you gone. You probably figured that already, but they’re coming right out with it now. On March 22, 2024, the consulting firm Black Girl Gamers posted on X about starting a Steam curator similar to Sweet Baby Inc. Detected that would list the games they were involved in deve...

Extremism in Gaming

robot_boob | Mar 25, 2024 | 4

Recent information has come to light that multiple government agencies are “to monitor extremism and terrorism recruitment through gaming communities” and “fighting for just equitable online spaces.” They are government agencies and officials with frightening names, like The Department of Ho...

Of Games, Engines, and Culture Wars: A 2024 GDC Retrospective

IllTemperedTuna | Mar 25, 2024 | 0

Something is rotten in the streets of San Francisco. Excrement bakes into the asphalt as the light of day burns the refuse into the asphalt. Needles pile from wasted years of moral highs. The Game Developers Conference has wrapped. Elbow rubbed elbow and jerk rubbed jerk among the usual crowd playin...

An Interview with Melonie Mac

AlexGherzo | Mar 24, 2024 | 7

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...