It's low effort clickbait agitprop, no any kind of actually serious discussion or journalism. If a topic isn't a part of the popular discourse at right this very moment, then they're not going mention it and likely won't even know it exists.
Culture (Cringey) Excellence in Games Journalism 101
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It's low effort clickbait agitprop, no any kind of actually serious discussion or journalism. If a topic isn't a part of the popular discourse at right this very moment, then they're not going mention it and likely won't even know it exists.
Robovski
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That requires a knowledge of games unsuitable for a Polygon games jurnlyst.
The should know of the R6 series
Isn't that kind of the left in a nutshell, though? Like they'll go on and on about the government being bad because "systemic racism" and the like, but they don't hate government, they just want to be the ones in charge, being the tyrants. Or how they go on about how horrible the police supposedly are, yet in CHAZ they were literally given free reign, and whatever they want to call their enforcers still ended up gunning down young black men, it's just that since they were the ones doing it, that made it okay to them, so "the right people."
Days Gone actor Sam Witwer accuses games journalists of not actually playing the game completely through.
Specifically:
Specifically:
Sam Witwer said:
Oh no a Satire News website decided to mock IGN in their hour of vulnerability!
Lets see the reactions!
From Jay Ingram, an EA Star Wars and Bioware Community Manager
From Janet Garcia, former IGN Game critic
From Zachary Ryan, Director of Editorial Videos at IGN
From Kallie Plagge, Nintendo America Writer and former Gamespot Editor
From Mike Futter, Founder of F-Squared and the Virutal Economy Podcast
From Andrew Gebbia, Video Producer at Gameranx
Lets see the reactions!
From Jay Ingram, an EA Star Wars and Bioware Community Manager
From Janet Garcia, former IGN Game critic
From Zachary Ryan, Director of Editorial Videos at IGN
From Kallie Plagge, Nintendo America Writer and former Gamespot Editor
From Mike Futter, Founder of F-Squared and the Virutal Economy Podcast
From Andrew Gebbia, Video Producer at Gameranx
Kotaku, Gamespot, IGN, Polygon, Gamerant, Eurogamer and a plethora of other games journalism websites are ree'ing about something that probably only ten people actually care about outside of the professional victimized.
www.pcgamer.com
So apparently Injustice 2 Mobile offers these challenges on various characters all the time and if you beat up the particular character you get cool in game tokens and nonsense. But the fact that they announced Poison Ivy (whose had an ongoing lesbian romance with Harley Quinn) as the character to smack around during Pride Month promotions was apparently too much for Kotaku (who specifically replied on Twitter on how "fucking hilariously tone deaf" the announcement no one cares about was to the point they decided to apologize for their harmless transgression.
I didn't even know Injustice Mobile was a thing, but there you go.
Injustice 2 dev apologises for celebrating Pride in the worst way possible
The DC fighter's mobile edition sure did challenge players to beat up a queer woman.
www.pcgamer.com
So apparently Injustice 2 Mobile offers these challenges on various characters all the time and if you beat up the particular character you get cool in game tokens and nonsense. But the fact that they announced Poison Ivy (whose had an ongoing lesbian romance with Harley Quinn) as the character to smack around during Pride Month promotions was apparently too much for Kotaku (who specifically replied on Twitter on how "fucking hilariously tone deaf" the announcement no one cares about was to the point they decided to apologize for their harmless transgression.
I didn't even know Injustice Mobile was a thing, but there you go.
Should've added Harley as a second target, with Joker being the required player-character.
Kotaku in Action! Because everything must be politicized and Games Journalism is merely a continuation of politics by retarded means.
Battlefield 2042 Is Not Commentary On Climate Refugees Says Dev, Internet Disagrees
Of course their source is literally a hyperlink to the Twitter Search of terms "Battlefield" and "Politics" which is mostly a link to people bitching about people bitching about how they are trying to politicize Battlefield 2042.
Let's hope Kotaku doesn't do a Keyword search for "Rainbow Six Siege" and "Nudes"... who knows what they'll draw from that MULTIPLAYER ONLY game.
Battlefield 2042 Is Not Commentary On Climate Refugees Says Dev, Internet Disagrees
Of course their source is literally a hyperlink to the Twitter Search of terms "Battlefield" and "Politics" which is mostly a link to people bitching about people bitching about how they are trying to politicize Battlefield 2042.
Let's hope Kotaku doesn't do a Keyword search for "Rainbow Six Siege" and "Nudes"... who knows what they'll draw from that MULTIPLAYER ONLY game.
Oh no!!!
This is... horrible... I will have absolutely nothing to play on the next gen consoles I don't own yet if there's a delay in AAA development.
Like really, if anything this is likely to be taken as an argument to support climate change.
This is... horrible... I will have absolutely nothing to play on the next gen consoles I don't own yet if there's a delay in AAA development.
Like really, if anything this is likely to be taken as an argument to support climate change.
POLYGON WANTS TO TELL YOU WHITE MEN ARE OVERRATED
ParadiseLost
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I mean, I'm sure its a bad movie, but that review seems way too personally targeted at Christ Pratt.
Its a bad movie because the vast majority of streaming originals are bad.
Its a bad movie because the vast majority of streaming originals are bad.
I will still watch it because I want to encourage more movies like Chris Pratt envisions.
Gamerant journalist Dan Conlin is trying to cancel Game and Sound Designer and Commentator Tommy Tallarico for the crime of FOLLOWING WHITE SUPREMICISTS on Twitter.
Which ones you might ask?
Why The Quartering of YouTube and US Representative and Navy Seal veteran Dan Crenshaw of course.
Which ones you might ask?
Why The Quartering of YouTube and US Representative and Navy Seal veteran Dan Crenshaw of course.
Rock Paper Shotgun's editor-in-chief can't make it past the Citadel in Mass Effect 1.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
Article is paywalled, but it's hard to see how this is a good look for the editor in chief of a gaming publication. Like, it would be thing if it was a matter of preference, that she didn't have the attention span for the RPG type free roaming area and quest following of the Citadel area in ME1. And it would be fair to say that the Citadel segment of the game's story drags a bit.
But that doesn't sound like what her problem is. She says she got "stuck" when she tried playing years ago, that she'd love to play the games "if she could find her way off the damn Citadel". It sounds like there's some obstacle, like she actually didn't know what to do next to progress the story. Which is...bizarre. ME1's Citadel segment is really light in terms of RPG questing length and openness. If you really can't make it through with concerted effort...how do you RPG? What are you doing as the editor of a gaming publication when simply playing through part of a relatively light RPG was beyond your ability? There's an astonishing lack of self awareness here.
I don't think I'll ever understand Mass Effect's Citadel
As we continue our journey playing Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, we chat about the first game's Citadel and how we ju…
www.rockpapershotgun.com
Article is paywalled, but it's hard to see how this is a good look for the editor in chief of a gaming publication. Like, it would be thing if it was a matter of preference, that she didn't have the attention span for the RPG type free roaming area and quest following of the Citadel area in ME1. And it would be fair to say that the Citadel segment of the game's story drags a bit.
But that doesn't sound like what her problem is. She says she got "stuck" when she tried playing years ago, that she'd love to play the games "if she could find her way off the damn Citadel". It sounds like there's some obstacle, like she actually didn't know what to do next to progress the story. Which is...bizarre. ME1's Citadel segment is really light in terms of RPG questing length and openness. If you really can't make it through with concerted effort...how do you RPG? What are you doing as the editor of a gaming publication when simply playing through part of a relatively light RPG was beyond your ability? There's an astonishing lack of self awareness here.
f1onagher
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One thing that really struck me when I finally played Horizon Zero Dawn was how the initial part of the game reeked of pandering to both woke bullshit and game journo style play (quick, easy and shallow), but the moment you leave the initial game area and start exploring the world the difficulty spikes and the world building drastically increases in quality. Its still a very generic open world game and Aloy has got to the blandest main character I've ever played, but the difference between the early game and the rest of it is night and day.
Because they know how the journos do
Christ, it's not like there's guides online, or actual official guides with maps and everything, or anything...Rock Paper Shotgun's editor-in-chief can't make it past the Citadel in Mass Effect 1.
I don't think I'll ever understand Mass Effect's Citadel
As we continue our journey playing Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, we chat about the first game's Citadel and how we ju…
Article is paywalled, but it's hard to see how this is a good look for the editor in chief of a gaming publication. Like, it would be thing if it was a matter of preference, that she didn't have the attention span for the RPG type free roaming area and quest following of the Citadel area in ME1. And it would be fair to say that the Citadel segment of the game's story drags a bit.
But that doesn't sound like what her problem is. She says she got "stuck" when she tried playing years ago, that she'd love to play the games "if she could find her way off the damn Citadel". It sounds like there's some obstacle, like she actually didn't know what to do next to progress the story. Which is...bizarre. ME1's Citadel segment is really light in terms of RPG questing length and openness. If you really can't make it through with concerted effort...how do you RPG? What are you doing as the editor of a gaming publication when simply playing through part of a relatively light RPG was beyond your ability? There's an astonishing lack of self awareness here.