Streaming culture incentivizes this kind of hateful rhetoric.
Sponsored streams have had three distinct phases, or eras, since 2014.
1814's Treaty of Paris is having some long-winded repercussions
Sony's Concord might be the biggest entertainment failure of all time, so why wasn't it news?
When the Supreme Court decided against Grokster, it changed the internet forever.
"We will not pay for our bosses' mistakes"
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Vice shuttered the site in 2023
The former Persona team’s new RPG is rooted in the real world but unbounded by reality
Frostpunk 2, 11 Bit Studios' magnum opus, is proof that video games are at their most interesting when they engage with politics and ideology head on.
Godot got a spite fork by the name "Redot" after their community managers quote-retweeted a chud calling the use of licensed game engines woke. Some people jumped onto the bandwagon, but it seems the engine is still too woke for some YouTube commentators.
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This November, Florida residents will decide whether to amend their state constitution to protect reproductive rights, overturning the state's near-total abortion ban after six weeks of pregnancy.
Some just want to promote conflict, cause chaos, or even just get attention.
The deep dive into the history, gatekeeping and exclusion, racism and colorism, uplifting of pallor, flirting with fascism, fetishisation and appropriation, conflicting ideologies and reality, and all-round white supremacist tendencies of the alternative/goth subculture that absolutely no-one asked for.
Tezuka Osamu's gekiga show some artistic experimentation, but also dig further into his conservative ideas about gender and sexuality, which were more ignorable in titles aimed at wider audiences. Two stories in particular, Apollo’s Song and MW, hammer in how much of his work was steeped in heteronormativity and homophobia.
Several bands have dropped out of an upcoming metal festival in Orlando after Kyle Rittenhouse was announced as a special guest.
The chief of the Shawnee Tribe grew up playing video games, including hundreds of hours colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.
It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.
Earlier this month, the entire staff of Annapurna Interactive walked out the door in a group resignation. But while some of the circumstances around their departure emerged in the reporting, one pressing question was left unanswered: why? IGN has pieced together a somewhat complex answer.
A union has called for staff at Ubisoft’s French operation to strike over a return to office order and pay dispute.