Electronic Art’s Star Wars: Battlefront 2 led the charge, walking away with more than just greediest monetisation of the year nomination. It finally pushed the gaming community over the edge with its implementation of loot boxes and pay-to-win mechanics. It was an entertaining saga with EA’s AMA on Reddit breaking records for the most downvoted comment in the platform’s …
The beginning of the gaming industry was a modest one. It took decades for gamers to shrug off the stereotypes of being unsociable, basement-dwelling nerds. It took just as long for gaming to be recognised as a serious industry with far reaching significance and potential for positive social impact. Whilst most of the world lagged behind on the power of gaming, gamers themselves understood and believed in its future. Of course it would be hard to predict just how massive gaming would become and the scope of its competitive scene, but nowadays it is hard to argue against its importance globally.
Outrage culture is about people becoming polarised and letting their emotions override critical thinking and fact checking. It’s about media abusing genuine pain and issues to increase views and push an agenda. It involves turning a non-issue into a divisive battleground for the sake of a narrative. Outrage culture is making the world more of an arena and less of a place for discussion and real engagement.
Gaming culture is an incredible thing to be a part of but it still has a lot of issues that need to be addressed. Derailing those discussions and those that are actively trying to fix them doesn’t help matters at all.
The war of words between Media & YouTubers has turned up by more than just a notch in recent months. This recent saga has eerily similar trends to Gamergate as both sides double down on their own narratives and advertisers are caught in the crossfire.
There's a great big divide in gaming, leaving gamers a fragmaneted group. Let's try change that in 2017 - by listening.
We may not have elections in the gaming scene that affects the world in quite the way that Brexit or the US elections have, but nonetheless whitelash needs to be taken seriously and we need to tackle it sooner rather than later.
"SJW" is a perjorative term that's lost all meaning - and the politics around it need to be kept out of video games. However, social issues absolutely belong in video games.
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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