Dead Or Alive Xtreme 3 Isn't Worth All The DramaMike Fahey4/07/16 11:00am33415EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkGamers have spent the past several months arguing over whether Dead or Alive’s third bikini-clad vacation simulator deserves a Western release. That’s a lot of time and energy wasted on the worst game in the series.
Civil War Game Pulled From Apple Store Now Doing Great On SteamPatricia Hernandez6/26/15 2:15pm29618EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkYesterday, Apple pulled a number of games that contained the U.S. Confederate flag from the app store without warning. Today, one of those games is highlighted on Steam’s front page—and players are rallying around it.
Gabe Newell Optimistic Paid Mods Will Be A Win For EverybodyMike Fahey4/25/15 10:01pm41616EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkAddressing the ongoing furor surrounding the monetization of mods on Steam, Valve boss Gabe Newell took to Reddit earlier today to defend his company’s controversial new initiative.
The Horror: Behind the Scenes of Launching H1Z1Leon Hurley2/23/15 4:30am687EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkLaunching a game is hard. So what happens when you release a high-profile title with the world watching and things break? Lots of things. Worse, it takes at least a day to fix stuff when a retweet can happen in seconds. Let’s talk to H1Z1’s senior game designer Jimmy Whisenhunt.
Why Big Hero 6 Is Upsetting Some People in South KoreaBrian Ashcraft1/19/15 6:30am4719EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalink You'd think Disney's Big Hero 6 would steer clear of controversy. That it would be a fairly innocuous movie. You'd think!
Sony Drops FIFA SponsorshipLeon Hurley12/01/14 6:30am659EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkSony won’t renew its sponsorship deal with FIFA, citing rising costs. However, the company is among a number voicing concerns over negative publicity surrounding the organisation.
Mobile Game Puts Players' Private Videos OnlineBrian Ashcraft10/09/14 8:15am242EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalink Oh dear. Chinese mobile app FengKuang LaiWang "leaked" over 35,000 user videos online, including clips of players in their underwear or naked.
Nintendo Is Sorry for Accidentally Banning Smash Bros. PlayersBrian Ashcraft9/15/14 8:00am956EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalink Over the weekend, some Smash Bros. 3DS players complained of being banned temporarily from online play. They weren't sure why.
Eggs and Plastic Bottles Thrown at Japanese Porn Star in ChinaBrian Ashcraft8/04/14 5:00am3675EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalink While politicians bickered, one thing China and Japan could always find common ground on was anime. And, uh, pornography. Which is why this recent incident was all the more surprising.
The Problem With Far Cry 4's Box ArtNathan Grayson5/22/14 9:00pm76218EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkFar Cry 4's box art depicts a man wearing a lavish pink suit using what might be a religious statue as a throne. He has blonde hair and fair skin and his hand rests on the head of a man of color who kneels, passively, clutching a grenade in his hands. It's caused quite a stir.
Candy Crush Makers: We Should Never Have Published 'Cloned' GameOwen Good1/27/14 11:00am2034EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkThe makers of Candy Crush Saga have issued a lengthy defense of their actions, with regard to a couple of notorious trademark applications and allegations it deliberately cloned a game whose makers reached a deal with another publisher.
The Most Ridiculous Victim of YouTube's Crackdown is a BASIC GameOwen Good12/17/13 3:30pm10511EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkYouTube's content ID match system may be the best way to keep copyright holders happy but it continues to cover everyone else in embarrassment. The latest example: This guy just got flagged for a playthrough video of a game. A game he programmed. In BASIC.
YouTube Copyright Fiasco Get Wilder, But This Time Someone Admits ErrorOwen Good12/16/13 7:30pm1974EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkBeing told someone else owns your 2-million-view video is a sure way to ruin a YouTuber's day. It can also be a real downer for the company supposedly making the claim. Especially if YouTube's bot scanner is making thousands of these infuriating claims on their behalf, all because of a mistake.
Game Critic Says YouTube Copyright Policy Threatens His Livelihood [Update]Owen Good12/12/13 3:30pm1.2K44EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkThree of "Angry Joe" Vargas' 10 most-viewed videos on YouTube, and dozens of others, have been flagged by YouTube's controversial "content ID" system, meaning the independent games critic and personality can't earn any advertising money from them. Last night, Angry Joe responded, very much in character.
Designer Apologizes for Reply to Question About Oversexed CharactersOwen Good11/24/13 1:12pm1K18EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkThe game director for Blizzard Entertainment's upcoming Heroes of the Storm has apologized for his treatment of a question about how characters are designed—specifically how multiplayer online battle arena games, of which Heroes is one, tend to hyper-sexualize female avatars.
Favoritism Charged as Select Few Get a $700 Spaceship in EVE [Update]Owen Good10/05/13 12:00pm15912EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkThis is by far my favorite type of story to cover on weekends: The EVE Scandal! They're fun because they tend to involve big-ass space ships or wads of in-game currency that convert to mind-boggling sums in real life. This latest allegation features both.
Xbox One Presenter Humiliated Me on Stage, Says Transgender Journalist [UPDATE: Some allegations recanted.]Owen Good9/29/13 11:30am2.2K21EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkA journalist says she was "completely dehumanised" on stage during an Xbox One Event at Eurogamer Expo 2013, by a comedian who made degrading jokes about her gender. Eurogamer Expo says it is investigating the matter.
Twitter Blowup Leads to Sudden Cancellation of Fez IIOwen Good7/27/13 3:17pm2.3K27EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkPolytron, the studio behind the indie hit Fez, announced over its official Twitter that development on Fez II has been canceled. It appears to be related to a very heated Twitter argument between Polytron founder Phil Fish and an Internet personality who sharply criticized him today.
Artist Says The Last of Us Ripped Off His Boston Subway Map Redesign [Update]Owen Good6/25/13 3:30pm5742EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkA transit-map enthusiast who painstakingly redesigned Boston's MBTA rail map says The Last of Us took his work, without his permission and without compensating him, for use in the game. He's not happy about it.
Command and Conquer's New Militant Faction Underlines an Old ProblemOwen Good6/12/13 12:00pm2382EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkNo longer will Command and Conquer's militant "Global Liberation Army" feature generals of obvious Middle Eastern descent, once the game goes free-to-play. Polygon reports that Victory Games made the decision because some folks didn't like the implication that Middle Easterners were a bunch of militant terrorists.