Category: Video Games
On behalf of Tolkien fans everywhere, we have created a number of banners for the #LordoftheRingsOnlineisNotTolkiensMiddle-Earth activists. Please use these banners wherever you like to send a strong message of …
Most if not all of the video game industry press are shills for the video game industry. Objective critique and reporting are almost non-existent. This symbiotic relationship is getting worse …
Since the highly controversial Lord of the Rings Online avatar changes, some current and former Lord of the Rings Online players have contacted me via email to express their outrage …
The basic premise of massively multiplayer online role-playing games is that anyone with a computer can create an account, choose an avatar, and immediately immerse themselves into a persistent fantasy …
In the past, the term “gatekeeper” had a negative connotation associated with it because it was often used to describe annoying people on internet discussion forums who act like self-appointed …
In the wake of Embracer Group’s 2022 purchase of Middle-earth Enterprises, the worst fears of millions of worldwide Tolkien fans have come true. Hasbro-owned Wizards of the Coast has race-swapped …
The Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation AKA GLAAD was originally formed to challenge the defamation of homosexuals and lesbians. Originally GLAAD was the GLADL — the Gay Lesbian Anti-Defmation League, …
Exciting news could be on the horizon for EverQuest fans, as Darkpaw Games appears to have a major announcement in the works. This information was revealed by Fading, a Darkpaw …
Blizzard Entertainment never ceases to amaze me with its cowardice and depravity. Last summer, they removed the option for players to choose male or female characters in both World of …
By now most American gamers have seen the black ESRB warning labels on the covers of video game software boxes. The Entertainment Software Rating Board is a private organization run …
This week the news broke that John Smedley was “leaving” Amazon Games in San Diego. It was rumored that he was working on an unannounced sci-fi MMORPG. Smedley was there …
It seems that every woke company in America has hired a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) officer. Being a diversity and inclusion officer is the ultimate featherbed job that requires …
There was big news last week as the entertainment world’s current leader of diversity and inclusion Blizzard Entertainment celebrated a straight white cisgender male, and sci-fi writer returning to the …
Many years ago, I played the Elder Scrolls Online on the PC and I must say I enjoyed my time there. I leveled a character to 45. I played ESO …
Given today’s hyper critical consumer culture and due to the glut of video games being released each day, it’s commonplace for gamers to heap scorn upon video game studios. Thanks …
On July 19th 2022, Darkpaw Games published Producer’s Letters for both EverQuest and EverQuest 2 that revealed the existence of a previously unknown diversity, inclusion, and equity (DIE) initiative at …
Back in December 2020, the news that international video game conglomerate Enad Global 7 had purchased Daybreak Games sent shockwaves throughout the MMORPG community. Daybreak Games owned the EverQuest franchise …
Nerd culture — comics, board games, and video games — has been hijacked by a coalition of woke interlopers. The war against nerd culture (which is predominantly white and male) …
In the space of a few years, we’ve gone from the adage that the customer is always right to the company is always right as an increasing number of American …
Imagine what would happen if your favorite restaurant changed out their staff every few years? It would be hard to believe that the quality of the food would still remain …
After a recent online encounter with a former millennial colleague, I have come to the realization that the state of the AAA video game industry is far worse than I …
Inevitably, a day will come when the pandemic of wokeness is dead and buried in the trash heap of history. Wokeness is a dangerous, parasitic, unsustainable, self-indulgent, ideological luxury that …
To my knowledge, not one video game journalist has challenged the official Cosby Suite narrative concocted by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing’s (D.F.E.H.) lawsuit against Activision-Blizzard and …
