Category: Featured
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Pokémon Coverage 20 Years Later: Sexually Preoccupied Cross Dressing Jerks
This year Pokémon turns 20. It’s a good time to look back on how the English speaking world welcomed Pokémon. A few years after it’s Japanese release, Poke-mania took the world by storm. The cartoon, the games, the endless merchandise, all of it was a fairly baffling fad for society. Explaining what this Japanese craze…
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An Interview with Radical Leftist Dev Colestia
Colestia presents as a monolith. The profile picture that the Canberra-based dev uses for Twitter and Itch.io is a multifaceted stone pillar against a white background; imposing and mysterious. But, in reality, Colestia is just a dude. He’s a hard working one, though. A recent college graduate and Australian, David Cribb, the man-behind-the-monolith has spent the…
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Madden 19’s Colin Kaepernick Censorship Didn’t Need to Happen
There’s censorship and controversy that are drummed up in poor taste, and then there’s the scrubbing of Colin Kaepernick’s name from a track in Madden 19. In case you haven’t heard about the latest controversy centered around the former football player, it’s been revealed that a lyric from a song included in the latest installment…
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How The Sims Became a Champion for LGBTQ Representation in Gaming
When talking about The Sims, an adjective that could very accurately describe it is influential. The follow-up project to creator Will Wright’s SimCity, the game was something that had never been tried before: an intimate simulation of real life where the player can act as either caretaker or doom-bringer for the characters in their charge.…
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Gamegate Whining Reveals ArenaNet Spinelessness. Who’s Next?
Gamergate, that perpetual sludge of “alt-right” Nazi cosplayers, men’s rights activists and literal human goblins, is entering the fourth year of its onslaught against the video game industry. In 2018, the “movement” of living, breathing fecal matter has decided to try its hand at innovation by pretending to be concerned customers. Recently, Guild Wars 2 developer…