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Activision-Blizzard has banned professional Hearthstone player Ng “Blitzchung” Wai Chung… for supporting the Hong Kong protesters. Blitzchung was being interviewed after a Grandmaster match on Sunday when he yelled out “liberate Hong Kong. Revolution of our age!” In response, Blizzard has banned him from competing in future matches for a year, and will lose any…
Night in the Woods co-developer Alec Holowka has passed away, his family announced earlier today. Holowka had been suffering from mood and personality disorders for years. However, it appears his death may be related to recent sexual assault allegations made by a fellow developer. Whether Holowka was guilty or innocent is not for me to…
We’ve talked quite a bit about the growing encroachment of politics in video games in the past year. It seems every gaming company has decided to jump on the bandwagon to push one agenda or another. Alright, let’s be honest, it’s mostly the same agenda. Though there are a few that are starting to push…
I’ve been trying to avoid political content lately, but I’ve been roped back in as Gone Home was announced as the latest Humble Bundle giveaway. This is a game I have a particular disdain for. Not because of its LGBT narrative, but how it was misrepresented as something it wasn’t. Arguably for purely political reasons….
Hard games have come back in vogue in recent years, largely due to the success of the Dark Souls franchise. This counters a past trend that saw games become progressively easier as studios tried to court more casual players. This ruffled a few feathers among the hardcore community. They wanted a serious challenge, FromSoftware answered…
The Verge has issued copyright strikes against several YouTubers who criticized their now infamous PC building video. Both Rich from ReviewTechUSA and Kyle from BitWit saw their copyright strikes on their channel after they posted videos critical of the build. Both creators argued that their respective videos fall under fair use, as they were using…
People have been talking about the next big video game crash for, oh… at least since I’ve been running this site. It seems gamers are eager engage in a little schadenfreude after all the idiotic stunts the industry has pulled over the years. The thing is, the crash might not be just over the horizon…
Epic Games announced they would be opening up a new storefront on PC to compete with the likes of Steam. I haven’t really been following it too closely, being busy with the holidays, but the response among the gaming community has certainly been interesting. Epic’s main selling point is a generous revenue sharing agreement with…
Fallout 76’s release has not gone as smoothly as anyone would have liked, which may be the understatement of the year. According to players, the game is a godawful mess. It’s perhaps the buggiest release Bethesda has put out so far, which is saying something for a studio with a long track record of buggy…
Over the past two decades, China has become an economic power house thanks to its rising middle class. For western companies, this has meant a fresh, new, and lucrative, market for mass media entertainment. Video games are of course no exception, and it seems that catering to the Chinese is having a profound impact on…