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Twitch Is Nuking Everyone's Favorite Binding Of Isaac Emote
26.9.2024
The Binding of Isaac is deeply embedded within gaming culture, so much so that it inspired one of the most familiar and beloved emotes to ever spam a Twitch chat: BibleThump. It’s the roguelike hero’s head screaming/sobbing, frequently deployed to communicate complex feelings of horror, empathy...
Helldivers 2 Boss Begs Team Not To Fix The Game's Best Bug
9.7.2024
Co-op third-person shooter Helldivers 2 has a new bug discovered this week (thanks PC Gamer), as the game’s latest big story beat reached its dramatic conclusion: offering mid-air hugs saves lives. Various emotes, when performed while plummeting, will reduce fall damage. And today, the developer’s...
Fortnite Removes Yoda Due To Game-Crashing Bug Involving Zoidberg Emote
8.5.2024
There’s really no gentle way to ease you into this situation so I’ll just be blunt: Yoda got removed from Fortnite because an emote inspired by Zoidberg from Futurama was turning the little Jedi master into a nasty monster that crashed people’s games. What a world we live in?Read more
I Will Be Love Bombing My Friends With Final Fantasy XIV’s New Emote
1.2.2024
If there’s one thing I’m going to do in Final Fantasy XIV, it’s endlessly spam emotes at all of my friends while we stand around in the middle of the Limsa Lominsa Aetheryte Plaza. But there’s only so many times I can /pet, /cheer, or /lalihop before it gets old. Thankfully, Square Enix...
Fortnite Brings Back 'Share The Wealth' Emote On Same Day As Mass Layoffs
29.9.2023
The video game industry is still reeling from Epic Games’ September 28 announcement that it will lay off nearly 900 employees. If developers at the Fortnite money-printing factory aren’t safe, nobody is. In perhaps the worst-timed microtransaction ever, Fortnite’s “Share The Wealth” emote went back...
Fortnite’s New Battle Pass Features ‘This Is Fine’ Joke
9.6.2023
A meme that has likely felt apt the past few days if you’re in New York, the “This is Fine” meme has long been a symbol of catharsis for those of us hopelessly accepting crushing realities beyond our control. And now, after paying 1,000 V-Bucks and reaching level 26 in the battle pass, it can...
Twitch Bans Popular Streamer’s Cute Emote For ‘Inciting Abuse’
21.3.2023
Fortnite Twitch streamer and hugely popular gaming TikToker Chica seemed to get some surprising news yesterday—Twitch removed one of her emotes, a cartoon chick with big, wet eyes and its tongue sticking out, for “inciting abuse.”Read more
Marvel Snap Players Think An Objectively Nice Emote Is Toxic
3.2.2023
Fans of Marvel Snap, the hugely popular, free-to-play card game, have come to a conclusion: the Ms. Marvel emote, the one where she’s grinning cheerfully, winking a bit and throwing up a thumbs up, is actually toxic as hell. Ms. Marvel might as well be giving you the finger and stomping on your...
Marvel Snap, Please Let My Opponents See Me Talk Smack After Matches
11.11.2022
It’s only been 24 hours since I started playing Marvel Snap, and like everyone else who tries their hand at the free-to-play card battler, I am completely enamored by it. It’s simple, it’s colorful, it’s free—and it offers ample opportunity for you to act like a total asshole in matches without...
DBZ Fans Are Losing It At Vegeta And Goku Dancing In Fortnite
16.8.2022
Fortnite has officially gone Super Saiyan and players can’t get enough of Dragon Ball Z’s stars chasing victory royales with Nimbus clouds and Kamehamehas. But they’re especially into the dancing. Off-brand Goku and Vegeta avatars are tearing up the internet with their new emote moves, and longtime...
Final Fantasy XIV's Director Is Asking You Not To Be Jerks
28.4.2022
Final Fantasy XIV recently introduced a new 5v5 player-vs-player mode called Crystalline Conflict. And while for the most part it seems to be going just fine, and folks are happy with it, the team behind the game aren’t as happy with some people’s behaviour in the mode, and so have taken the time...
Fortnite's Getting Sued By Dance Choreographer Who's Worked With Bieber, Britney
30.3.2022
On March 29, lawyers representing choreographer Kyle Hanagami sued Epic Games for copyright infringement over the “It’s Complicated” dance emote in Fortnite. The in-game emote begins with movements which Hanagami’s lawyers allege are lifted from copyrighted dance moves created by the choreographer....
Epic Disables Disrespectful Fortnite Emotes In The Martin Luther King Event
27.8.2021
Yesterday, Epic added an interactive Martin Luther King, Jr. museum to its popular free-to-play shooter, Fortnite. While the civil rights educational event came with some specific emotes for players to use, it also allowed folks to activate any emote from the wider stable of options. Having this...
Bethesda Stops 'Selling' Sad and Unfinished Fallout 76 Emote A Month Later
7.7.2021
For the past month or so, Fallout 76 players have been scratching their heads over “romancandlecelebration,” an icon-free emote in the Atomic Shop that one might think would shoot some sort of celebratory fireworks into the sky but does not. Today’s Steel Reign update ended any lingering confusion...
Outriders Had A Rough Launch, So Now Fans Get A 'Frustration' Emote
11.6.2021
Outriders has had a rough time after its April 1 launch, with server crashes, bugs, baffling nerfs, items disappearing, and more. It’s an extremely frustrating situation. And it seems Outriders developer People Can Fly understands this. In response, it has released a new community appreciation...
Twitch's Latest Pogchamp Emote Is A Meme Lizard, Not A Streamer
20.1.2021
Twitch’s plan to replace its problematic Pogchamp emote with a rotating cast of fresh faces? Pretty poggers. Twitch’s execution of said plan? Not poggers. Today’s Pogchamp? Also not poggers, because instead, it’s KomodoHype, a meme with some Pogchamp history.Read more
Twitch Will Have A Different Pogchamp Emote Every 24 Hours From Now On
8.1.2021
Earlier this week, Twitch removed its extremely popular Pogchamp emote, which is used to express excitement in chat, after the face of the emote, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, encouraged further “civil unrest” after the insurrection at the Capitol Building. Now, just two days later, it’s replaced...
Twitch Removes "PogChamp" Emote
7.1.2021
Twitch has removed the extremely popular “Pogchamp” emote from its service after the man featured in it, streamer Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, tweeted some Extremely Bad Shit about the events currently unfolding in Washington.Read more
Bungie says it has fixed Destiny 2's infamous “Bureaucratic Walk” emote, which was allowing play
2.11.2017
Bungie says it has fixed Destiny 2's infamous “Bureaucratic Walk” emote, which was allowing players to glitch through walls to access parts of the game that they shouldn’t have been able to access. A hotfix released today patched that bug and made some tweaks to Faction Rallies and Crucible...