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Ex-Bayonetta Actress Asks Fans To Donate Boycott Money To Anti-Abortion Group
28.10.2022
The former voice of Bayonetta has gone from calling out bad pay for gaming industry talent to plugging the controversial anti-abortion group Billboards 4Life. This all started out with her boycott of Bayonetta 3, after misleading fans about her removal from the project. She’s now urging them...
Orgy Party Game On Steam Will Donate Proceeds To Planned Parenthood
5.8.2022
Orgynizer isn’t a game where you participate in an orgy: it’s a game where you’re organizing one. You may be wondering: How hard could it be to organize a sex party? It turns out, it’s very complicated. Read more
Activision Blizzard Workers Walk Out Over Lack Of Roe v. Wade Support
21.7.2022
Employees from Activision Blizzard walked off their jobs today in order to demand protections for the staff members impacted by the loss of abortion rights in the United States. The walkouts impacted studios in California, Texas, Minnesota, and New York. Read more
Nvidia's Silence On Abortion Rights Troubles Many Employees
7.7.2022
Ever since the Supreme Court announced that Roe v. Wade was no longer the law of the land, Americans have started turning to a different institution to protect their lives: their employer. The tech and games industry is no different. Staff at Nvidia, which is headquartered in Silicon Valley but...
$10 Bundle Includes Hundreds Of Games, Helps Fund Access To Abortion
6.7.2022
Game designer Caro Asercion has marshaled together a massive itch.io bundle giveaway to help raise money for abortion funds throughout U.S. states where reproductive health is now, or soon will be, illegal following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. It’s just $10, and includes...
Tensions Rise At Bethesda As Employees Pressure Company On Abortion Measures
1.7.2022
In the wake of Roe v. Wade being struck down last week, many employees at Skyrim maker Bethesda Game Studios and its parent company ZeniMax Media have grown increasingly frustrated by what they see as their employer’s unwillingness to clearly support employees’ access to reproductive healthcare....
Here's How To Add U.S. Supreme Court Justices To Minecraft For No Reason At All
24.6.2022
Minecraft is still one of the biggest games in the world more than a decade after its launch. At the same time, the justices of the United States Supreme Court are all over the news lately. It’s a no-brainer: Let’s put those judges in Minecraft!Read more
PlayStation Studios Break Silence On Abortion Rights After Roe Overturned
24.6.2022
On Friday the U.S. Supreme Court made good on a longstanding right-wing threat to overturn Roe v. Wade, and with it eradicate the constitutional right to abortion that had existed for nearly 50 years. Now some of gaming’s most well known studios, which had previously been silent, are speaking...
EA Tells Devs It Won't Take Stand On Abortion Rights, Encourages 'Healing Circles'
25.5.2022
Electronic Arts won’t be joining some other big game studios in publicly supporting abortion and transgender rights, Kotaku has learned. Asked about it during a May 24 company-wide town hall meeting, the gaming publisher told staff it couldn’t take a stance on every public issue and that “being...
Real Life ‘Witcher School’ Shuts Down Over Organizer’s Ultra-Conservative Political Ties
25.5.2022
Until recently, a “Witcher School” in Poland ran live-action role-playing (LARP) events for fans of the wildly popular fantasy series with the official blessing of Witcher-series game publisher CD Projekt Red. But last Friday, its organizers, a company called 5 Żywiołów, announced that the “school”...
Texas Game Studio Will Help Employees Fleeing Anti-Trans, Anti-Abortion Laws
20.5.2022
As large areas of the United States grow increasingly hostile toward trans folks and abortion rights, one Texas game studio CEO is promising to assist employees who want to leave the state should it come to that (h/t GamesIndustry.biz).Read more
PlayStation Boss Asks Staff To Respect All Abortion Opinions In Email About Cats
13.5.2022
An internal email from PlayStation president Jim Ryan contains several paragraphs about cats, but doesn’t contain a hard stance in support of his staff’s reproductive rights, and even asks employees to “respect” anti-abortion views and opinions, leaving many PlayStation staff angry and upset.Read...
Wordle Removes ‘Fetus’ Answer Following Attack On Abortion Rights
9.5.2022
Today’s Wordle answer was supposed to be “fetus,” and for many it still was, despite The New York Times trying to pull the word ahead of time. In light of reports that the Supreme Court is currently slated to overturn Roe v. Wade and toss out abortion rights for millions along with it, the Greylady...
Bungie Defends Abortion Rights Even As People Urge It To Stick To Games
5.5.2022
A studio best known for blockbuster games about shooting aliens now increasingly has a reputation for not taking shit from the people who play them. Creator of Halo and Destiny 2, Bungie, took fire from angry gamers this week, for coming out in support of abortion rights. Instead of flinching like...
Tripwire CEO 'Steps Down' After Supporting Texas Anti-Abortion Law
7.9.2021
John Gibson, the CEO of Tripwire Interactive—the studio behind Maneater and Killing Floor—has “stepped down” following enormous public and internal backlash over his support of Texas’ recent decision to strip women of a basic human right.Read more
Killing Floor Boss Pleased Texas Women Losing Basic Human Rights
5.9.2021
According to a tweet posted yesterday by John Gibson, the president of Tripwire Interactive—the studio behind Maneater and Killing Floor—he is “proud” that the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a new Texas anti-abortion law to stand earlier this week.Read more