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I hadn’t even finished downloading the beta on Friday when the first messages began flooding in. “If the campaign for the new Doom is anywhere near the quality of the multiplayer beta, then that’s the franchise over,” the most scathing take read. This post originally appeared 4/3/16 on Kotaku Australia. It wasn’t that bad. But…
I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my least favorite racist on the Citadel. Continuing his tendency to Tweet absolutely anything, no matter how ridiculous, Donald Trump recently shared the following video with his 7.3 million followers: Yes, that is Mass Effect music and voice acting throughout the ad, which appropriately ends with a title card…
I am a gamer. I followed the call of Cthulhu and ran in the shadows with hackers and shamans. I traversed the ancient lands of Greyhawk, Faerun, and Eberron with companions new and old. I swung from an airship and buckled swash over London for the Kerberos Club. I threw dice and flipped cards and…
Square Enix debuted a new trailer for its upcoming role-playing game, Final Fantasy 15, during a special event tonight. The trailer for the game, which is confirmed for a Sept. 30, 2016 release, focuses on the cast and the combat of Final Fantasy 15. Final Fantasy 15‘s latest trailer shows never-before-seen gameplay, as well as…
Earlier this week players in Eve Online were involved in one of that game’s famously large and expensive battles. But sources tell Polygon that this was just the opening round of what could be the largest military mobilization in that game’s history. Digging deeper into the subject, we’ve been able to chart the rise of…
I often say Im a video game culture writer, but lately I dont know exactly what that means. Game culture as we know it is kind of embarrassing — its not even culture. Its buying things, spackling over memes and in-jokes repeatedly, and its getting mad on the internet.Its young men queuing with plush mushroom…
Yesterday (and for almost three years), Alison Rapp was a Nintendo employee working in communications and marketing for the company’s Treehouse localization group. Today, Nintendo fired her. Rapp announced on Twitter earlier that Nintendo made the decision to terminate her employment. “As many of you know, the last couple months have been quite a whirlwind…
I’ve been sitting here this morning paralyzed at what to say in response to this… The last few months since we launched That Dragon, Cancer have been pretty incredible. The mainstream culture, the gamer culture, and others have all embraced our story and been willing to listen to our heart as we released a…
Nintendo employee Alison Rapp, who’s been a target of harassment over censorship controversies in recent months, said on Twitter that she has been fired. “Today, the decision was made,” she wrote. “I am no longer a good, safe representative of Nintendo, and my employment has been terminated.” Rapp laid the blame on those harassing her,…
Gaming’s culture war hasn’t ended. It’s still roiling, with new fights, new targets, new depths of ugliness, but also many of the same tactics. ‘; if (google_ads[0].bidtype == ‘CPC’) { /* insert this snippet for each ad call */ google_adnum = google_adnum + google_ads.length; } document.write(s); } } google_ad_client = ‘ca-pub-0457527031304647’; google_ad_output = ‘js’; google_max_num_ads…