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  • Subnautica Dev’s Ship Springing Leaks as Offensive History Surfaces [Updated]

    Subnautica Dev’s Ship Springing Leaks as Offensive History Surfaces [Updated]

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    Geron Graham
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    Racist, sexist tweets from Subnautica developer Simon Chylinski are met with ire from the community, but defended as ironic by him and a fellow developer. Two Years Later, Dev’s Clarify Strange Remarks In February of 2016, Unknown Worlds Game Director Charlie Cleveland posted a poll to twitter asking whether players would prefer that the developers…

  • Terraria: Blood Moons & Misogyny

    Terraria: Blood Moons & Misogyny

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    Joanna Mueller
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    In a world of giant flying eye monsters and mountable unicorns players are free to do and be almost anything. Yet in all the fantastical make-believe somebody at Terraria developer Re-Logic felt the need to spice things up with a dig at those crazy females. The snide little social commentary had gone mostly unnoticed or…

  • 2064: ROM Devs Punished For Their Politics On Metacritic

    2064: ROM Devs Punished For Their Politics On Metacritic

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    Joanna Mueller
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    One of the most effective ways to show displeasure with a company or product is to refuse to buy it. If you don’t like something a creator says or does then don’t support them. Gaming offers even more recourse in the form of user reviews. Fans have learned to utilize these to vocalize displeasure with any…