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Elon Musk Buying Twitter Sucks, But Marginalized Game Devs Aren't Leaving
26.4.2022
Yesterday, Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion dollars, and a lot of people in the video game industry are unhappy about it. Some are making Mastodon accounts, others are making jokes, while others are voicing their concerns about the Tesla founder taking over the platform. However, a sizable...
Another Pro Gamer With History Of Homophobia Fired In Wake Of Men's Height Controversy
18.2.2022
Osaka-based esports team Cyclops Athlete Gaming has fired yet another player. Yesterday, it cancelled the contract of Tekken player Tanukana after a history of abusive comments, the last being about men under a certain height. Today, following revelations about some really unpleasant tweets, it...
Twitch Co-Founder Gets Discord Hacked, $150,000 Stolen From Users In NFT Scam
22.12.2021
Justin Kan, a co-founder of Twitch and the dude Justin.TV was named for, last week decided to launch a site called Fractal, which would be a ‘marketplace’ where in-game items could be bought and sold as NFTs. Later, in Fractal’s Discord server, a link appeared advertising a drop of 3333 NFTs....
Monster Girl Encyclopedia Wiki Will Be Sacked By Host Due To ‘Fetish’ Content
16.11.2021
Fandom, the company that now hosts a solid majority of video game and other pop-culture wikis, recently updated its “community creation policy” with a new section stating that it will no longer host pages that contain “fetish” content. Thanks to this policy update, the Monster Girl Encyclopedia...
Game Payment Company CEO Sounds Like A Massive Jerk
6.8.2021
Game payment company Xsolla is reportedly planning to lay off 150 people for being “unengaged and unproductive.” CEO and founder, Aleksandr Agapitov later wrote on Twitter, “Work your fucking ass off or get your fucking ass out.” It’s a big old mess made more complicated by the CEO’s continued...
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30.7.2021
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Gamer Chair Apologizes For Bad Tweets, Promises To Do Better
19.7.2021
Vertagear, a self-proclaimed “top gamer chair brand trusted by many esports teams,” is now under fire by everyone else for trying to turn a sexist joke into an edgy meme.Read more
Videogame Article
18.6.2021
Pithy opening that assumes my position as the imparter of information, but also implies my confidence that over a beer we could get on just fine. Declaration of the news story in one line, strongly suggesting—though absolutely not directly saying so—that I am first to break this story.Read more
Man Charged, Banned From FIFA After Sending Racist DMs To Actual, Legendary Player
4.3.2021
Last May Irish teenager Patrick O’Brien was playing a game of FIFA, and one of the players he was controlling was Arsenal and England legend Ian Wright. O’Brien lost that match, and so decided to jump into Wright’s DMs and send a succession of disgustingly racist attacks.Read more
Welcome To Hell, Bambi
27.2.2021
This week on Snapshots we have some great Assasin’s Creed shots, a laid back Spider-Man, a large rodent in danger, some nice-looking vistas, and one very, very lost deer. Read more
Twitter Passes Stimulus Package for the Very Online
25.2.2021
Twitter is finally rolling out a way to get paid for tweeting that doesn’t involve putting a Venmo link in your bio, promoting a Patreon, or using the app to hunt for a rich spouse.Read more