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Kristen Valnicek stared at her computer in disbelief. She cupped her hands over her mouth and fell to her bedroom floor. “I can’t feel my body,” she wailed. Then she hopped up and started dancing. She looked back at the screen. “Oh my God, it’s real.” Someone with the username Andy, a fan she’d never…
Imagine, for a second, that you work for the U.S. or European branch of Konami. It’s a cool job—you get to handle marketing, social media, or maybe business relations for a big company that publishes some cool games. Until suddenly you find yourself entangled in one of the worst PR disasters in video game history….
During last night’s Game Awards, Geoff Keighley announced that Metal Gear Solid director Hideo Kojima would not be present to accept any awards for the game due to Konami allegedly blocking him from attending the event. Keighley said that Kojima was told by a lawyer representing Konami that he was not allowed to travel to…
With reporting by Victoria McNally Over the past year, any dedicated gamer or casual player with a social media account has likely witnessed the same conversation: the one surrounding women’s roles inside the world of gaming. With Zoe Quinn’s Gamergate Memoir “Crash Override” coming to the big screen, and everyone from John Oliver to “South…
http://www.patreon.com/jimquisition http://www.thejimquisition.com http://sharkrobot.com/collections/jim… Making money from the easily outraged may appear cynical and exploitative, but it actually isn’t. With a convenient boogeyman, the right rhetoric, and a little bit of good ol’ fashioned demagoguery, you’ll be stacking cheddar courtesy of those who’ll take any validation tossed their way. And the best part is how it…
The average Millennial gets up the crack of noon in their parents’ house and spends an hour looking through thousands of shoddy t-shirts printed with The Smiths and Joy Division to attempt to look good for selfie number one. Fumbling through thousands of cat memes they contemplate: which video game shall I play until 3am…
November 12th marks the day that 104 Xbox 360 games will become backwards compatible with Xbox One, and according to Microsoft, more titles will continually be added to the list beginning in December. This feature, when it was announced at E3 earlier this year, was almost universally praised, and for good reason: it comes at…
I just played the PC version of Star Wars Battlefront online, and it took less than 30 minutes to discover a glaring mistake from EA. In Battlefront, like many online games, players can communicate with each other using text — and every match of Battlefront on PC has a chat room you can’t turn off. It wasn’t long until players turned…
This year’s BlizzCon event was full of exciting news for World of Warcraft, including a trailer for the upcoming movie and the announcement of a release time frame for the game’s sixth expansion pack, Legion. But just days before BlizzCon started, the news for Blizzard’s massively multiplayer role-playing game looked much more grim. The developer revealed that the game was down to…
Last time we checked on The Binding of Isaac community, a glitch caused people to believe the game’s missing content was part of a giant conspiracy. Instead, it was just a glitch. But in the last few days, culminating in a real-life search of Santa Cruz, California, fans did band together to solve a grand…