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Let’s talk about Seth, Jackson’s Community Bigot

This is probably one of the last few relevant articles from Polygon before its demise. RIP Polygon

Multiple staff laid off

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28925680

This is why we need to have 90 dollar games! /s

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62767567

Hat tip to Kevin Bunch: https://bsky.app/profile/atariarchive.org/post/3lnzvdhowhc26

Let’s say that 300-400 workers had just gotten laid off as a result of poor sales of games like EA Sports FC 25, as well as longstanding mismanagement of series like Dragon Age and Titanfall. Wouldn’t you think one or even a few of these people could stand to take a pay cut in order to prevent such an outcome?

For context (if you’re a sane person and not extremely online), researcher William Costello recently did a simple, anonymous Twitter poll. Men and women were invited to rate pictures of British singer Olly Murs when he was huskier vs. when he really hit his gym goals and became legitimately shredded.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/33039410

Tony Gilroy pulled from 6,000 years of history when making Andor

In a show of solidarity with the Palestinian-led BDS movement, indie label Ice Water Games has removed one of its projects, open-world tactics RPG Tenderfoot Tactics, from the Xbox store.

It is likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again.

Andor’s final chapter feels like a series of mini-movies about how wars for freedom are won in fits and starts.

The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.

Kirsche Verstahl, a Gamer Supps partner, was already in hot water after a series of racist jokes. Then, she retweeted a Nazi fan.

After a UK Supreme Court ruling, Hadley Freeman celebrated by lamenting the friendships she’s lost over her views. Her side may have won the ruling, but it won't improve her social life.

Nicola Coughlan and Bowen Yang took direct aim at J.K. Rowling in Instagram posts.

I love being able to come to you with something completely and utterly gorgeous, uplifting and entertaining. The Beekeeper’s Picnic, a Sherlock Holmes point-and-click adventure, gives us a few hours in the post-retirement life of the great detective, and the opportunity to shape his relationship with an elderly Watson. It’s an uplifting, gentle tale, packed with superbly informed references to Arthur Conan Doyle’s fiction, delivered with a bucolic charm.

Small businesses are paying the price in Trump’s trade war

Scattered information and ever-changing stakes leave creators feeling naked against a coming economic storm.

Falling in love with a fictional character is not abnormal. Neither by societal standards based on just how many people do and by psychological standards. It is a normal thing we sometimes do as humans; become attached to someone who doesn’t really exist. Let’s take a journey into the mountain of psychological research and real life pandemonium of fictophilia.

Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles

Non-paywalled version here

A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News.

The United Videogame Workers union is open to any gaming worker in the US and Canada and will focus on industry-wide job loss.

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No Mercy was already removed by Valve in the UK, Canada, and Australia before the announcement