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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…
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The Sexism Problem Gaming Won’t Let Go
You have likely heard of the controversy involving Elias Viglione. The indie developer of Hero Siege recently went on a sexist rant on Twitter that lead to a huge backlash from the gaming community. The kerfuffle led Elias to release an apology that blamed his sexism on, among other things, being drunk and having temperament issues.…
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Catching Kitties, Abstract Art & Monitoring the Market: Inside Jam for Change 2018
Jam for Change was a game jam that took place during London Games Festival on Saturday 7th and Sunday the 8th of April. It was an event in support of the charity women’s aid, who provide services and give and help to women and children who are victims of violence and domestic abuse. Anyone could…
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These Horizon Zero Dawn Photographers Find the Soul in the Machines
Despite being released way back in the murky, pre-technology days of slightly over a year ago, Guerrilla‘s open-world masterpiece Horizon Zero Dawn continues to inspire a wealth of a new fan art, cosplay, and incredible photography. To celebrate Aloy’s one year anniversary, New Normative asked some of our favourite capture artists to share stories from their…
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Super Lesbian Animal RPG Is A Treasure In The Making
No, you read that right. Super Lesbian Animal RPG is an actual game in development. Now, this should be said straight away. If the title alone has triggered you with its promise of same sex relationships among anthropomorphic animals, you’re going to have a bad time. Seriously, stop reading right now and go back to…
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Alien Food Frenzy Launches on Steam, Doesn’t Include Game File
It seems like you can’t go more than a month without Steam revealing more and more about its broken approval process for games. Now the botched release of Alien Food Frenzy drives the point home once more. As we know, all it takes to get a game published on steam is 100 dollars and an…
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5 Times Gamers Killed Goku in Dragon Ball Z Games
There are philanthropists for a number of different causes; including, as it turns out, killing Dragon Ball Z’s protagonist Goku. Fighting game player and streamer Lee “Lythero” Geary revealed in a Twitter post that one generous patron, Kyle Kilby, donates money to the streamer for every Goku the player kills in his Dragon Ball FighterZ…
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New Normative Comment Clinic: Don’t Worry N4G, We’re Here to Help
It’s been a sad week here at New Normative. As I’m sure you’re all aware… we’ve been banned from N4G. Good old N4G, the “Hottest Game News and Rumors” site. I know it’s a tragedy, but it’ll be okay, because our N4G friends can still find us here. With this in mind, we’d like to…
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Assassin’s Creed: Origin’s Discovery Tour Mode is Great
I’ve been excited for Assassin’s Creed: Origin’s Discovery Tour mode since it was first announced. Origin’s sprawling map of Ptolemaic Egypt is gorgeous, and exploring it while learning about its real world equivalent is just as good as I expected. Launching Discovery Tour drops you, as Aya, in Alexandria. The tour beings with information about…
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Warframe Devs ask “What do you want?”
In the face of the recent microtransaction controversies, one company looks to be dialing back one of their more annoying monetization practices. You might be surprised to hear that it’s a free to play game, Warframe, that is looking to change this practice. They plan to make changes to the Prime Vault system in the…
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Super Seducer Offers ‘Controversial’ Pick-up Advice
From the best-selling author of The Natural: How to Effortlessly Attract the Women You Want, comes a dating sim designed for idiots. Richard La Ruina’s FMV seduction simulator, Super Seducer is coming to Steam and PS4 on March 6th. Needless to say we’re not linking it. Naturally, a game that “teaches” men to win women…
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Humble’s Valentines Sale is a Celebration of Queer Love
So, it’s Valentine’s Day, and we all know what that means: half price on crappy chocolate at Walgreens the day after Cupid slings his Hallmark arrows. Seriously, though, whether you’ll be hanging out in a hot tub sipping Veuve Clicquot with your loved one(s), binge-watching Queer as Folk in a dark room, or marching in…
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Dragon Age 2 Romances Suck
Dragon Age is an awesome franchise, but the romance options in Dragon Age 2 sucked because everyone’s whiny or murderous. The two best companions, Aveline and Varric, can’t be romanced. You can flirt with Aveline, but that’s about it. And Varric’s heart belongs to Bianca. Anders “I’ll blow your mind… and then blow up a ton…
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A Completely Objective Review of An Apolitical Game
Apolitical Game is a game without any kind of politics. None whatsoever. Do you dislike politics in your games? Good. Because Apolitical Game has none. If you asked Apolitical Game what its politics were, it would say “None”. Partly because it’s a game, but mostly because it’s apolitical. As a white cis dude, I found it…
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Link is Genderfluid
The release of Breath of the Wild is still on everyone’s minds and on everyone’s Switch consoles. This is a game that appeals to a wide spectrum of people of all backgrounds and all genders. We see everything through Link’s eyes and so he is adapted in our eyes to suit our own head canons. That…
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance Still Fails to Deliver Representation
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is coming out this month. That struck me as sort of weird, given that February is Black History Month, and Deliverance has failed utterly to include any people of color (PoC) in their white man power fantasy game. Surely, a development team that touts itself as being dedicated to “historical accuracy” in their game…