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With the latest predictable twist in Horizon Forbidden West’s Burning Shores DLC, the question must be asked: Why do so many modern female protagonists have to be, well, you know? It’s almost like developers think normal women are incapable of being strong. We discuss this trend and the agenda behind it along with Dove’s awful take on sexualized video game characters, PC Gamer shaming the co-creat...

The arbiters of social justice in the video game sphere, Kotaku, made a little oopsie this week when one of the site’s writers showed his true colors by making a racist tweet in reaction to being upset that Nintendo has (rightfully) blacklisted the publication. We talk about the irony of this event along with the success of the Super Mario Bros. movie, Wizards of the Coast sending Pinkerton agents...

Jeremy Crawford, one of the lead designers of Dungeons & Dragons, raised some eyebrows recently when he announced the new Player’s Handbook for the popular tabletop roleplaying game would remove half-species, such as half-elves, calling the concept “inherently racist.” We discuss the backwards idea that race mixing, whether in fantasy or real life, is racist along with a teenager being disqualifie...

Kotaku has a weird take on sexiness. Things like Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil Village and the cartoon dragon from Ring Fit Adventure are fine to sexualize, but, for some reason, a human girl’s iconic skirt turning into a skort is something to celebrate. We discuss Kotaku’s bizarre take on such changes to the Resident Evil 4 remake along with Hollywood’s anti-Christian bias, the charges again...

Since the second failure of G4, Adam Sessler continues to prove how jaded and bitter he is about the industry he covered for decades with his latest Twitter meltdown. We discuss his lack of accountability over X-Play commentary on JRPGs along with yet more and more examples of publishers and producers censoring and gender- and race-bending beloved classics—further proof of the absolute oversensiti...

Hogwarts Legacy has been in the wild for over two weeks now, and still streamers of this incredibly popular game are being reduced to tears by people who think they have the moral high ground while bullying players of the game. We discuss this issue along with Games Done Quick banning Hogwarts Legacy and other games from its events, Ukraine trying to restrict sales of Atomic Heart, and more.

Due to Hogwarts Legacy’s ties to the “transphobic” J. K. Rowling, many screeching leftists have attempted to boycott the game, but their efforts were in vain; the game has been nothing but a critical and commercial success. We discuss the game and surrounding controversy along with Wizards of the Coast’s decision to reverse its proposed new Open Game License for the next version of Dungeons & Drag...

Dungeons & Dragons fans have been raging for weeks now after Wizards of the Coast, publisher of the popular tabletop roleplaying game, had a leak of its new Open Game License that puts everything from third-party content to virtual tabletop programs at risk of obsoletion. We discuss the ongoing controversy and the hopeful decline of D&D’s popularity along with the ridiculous Velma show and Hogwart...

Kotaku, PC Gamer, and probably others blasted Final Fantasy XVI, an upcoming game with Medieval Europe aesthetics, for not including black people. We discuss how ridiculous it is to expect diversity in every piece of media along with Hogwarts Legacy developers removing gender from the game as a swipe at J. K. Rowling, Dungeons & Dragons requiring cultural consultants on all future products, The Ri...

EA took to Twitter to apologize after a single person got offended by the company’s lack of representation during a presentation about The Sims. We discuss this spineless move along with how much the new Gotham Knights sucks, G4 being canceled, Kotaku’s hilarious article on climate change, Overwatch 2’s sexual game modes, Henry Cavill leaving The Witcher, D&D’s quest to become worse and worse, and...

CD Projekt Red recently announced a slew of new games the studio is working on, but there’s a catch: They’re joining ESG, a sort of social currency system that funds only “woke” games. This likely means future CD Projekt Red games will cater to social-conscious investors rather than fans. We discuss this disappointing news along with Overwatch 2’s required phone number blunder, The Last of Us TV a...

God of War developer David Jaffe went on another tirade last week, accusing men who don’t like lackluster female Marvel characters of being misogynists. The problem is Jaffe helped create the original God of War games, full of sex minigames and female nudity, nevermind the depraved parties his employer threw. We discuss his hypocrisy along with Frosk getting fired from G4, the GTA VI and Diablo IV...

Dungeons & Dragons has long been aboard the woke train, and the latest controversy proves just how hollow and hilarious it all is. D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast censored lore from its latest book after just a few Twitter wokies complained it was “racist.” We discuss how the only true racists in this story are those who found the lore problematic along with Game Informer wanting The Last of Us...

Nexus Mods removed a mod that changed the pride flags in Spider-Man to American flags and banned the user who uploaded it. We discuss how players should have the right to experience games the way they want along with the failure of the new, woke Saints Row game, how The Last of Us remake looks worse than the original game, the terrible direction Dungeons & Dragons is taking, more warning signs tha...

Former Polygon games journalist Ben Kuchera took to Twitter recently to rant about the website, its higher-ups, vaccinations, and sexual abuse. We break down his tweet tirade and discuss other topics, including the ongoing trend of uglify-ing classic female video game characters, a pointless in-game climate march in a Ubisoft game, and yet more claims that D&D is racist.

Grand Theft Auto VI is in development, but don’t get too excited; according to reports, the upcoming entry in the popular franchise will no longer “punch down” at minorities. In other words, GTA VI won’t be the Grand Theft Auto series fans know and love for being an offensive and satirical take on politics and America. We discuss this groan-inducing news along with Kotaku getting upset at Stray an...

Eric July is a libertarian who raised over $1.2 million in a day for an indie comic line he’s launching–one that will be decidedly not woke, like so many Marvel and DC comics are today. We discuss his wild success and what this means for nerd media along with The Watch trying to eliminate racism in gaming, Ubisoft continuing to be terrible, Bayonetta 3’s censored mode, Hideo Kojima being falsely i...

TheGamer.com has always been a terrible games “journalism” website, and today they prove it by disparaging their entire audience over the sins of the few. We discuss their awful article along with Activision Blizzard virtue signaling in Overwatch 2, G4TV’s imminent demise, scientific research that proves sexy video game characters don’t hurt anyone, a God of War Ragnarok writer who really wants Kr...

Kotaku published an article last week not only defending proven abuser Amber Heard but comparing her experience to GamerGate, an eight-year-old push against unethical journalism. We discuss the lunacy of this piece along with Kotaku being jealous of virtual women, Bungie bungling a Juneteenth cosmetic, PCGamer’s hate boner for Elon Musk, Diablo Immortal’s predatory practices, the Xbox Games Showca...

Kotaku writer Ian Walker got some flak recently when he falsely claimed in an article that the upcoming Street Fighter 6 would feature the series’ first black woman. We discuss Walker doubling and tripling down on this claim along with Xbox calling out Kotaku’s terrible take on Game Pass, a Halo co-creator criticizing the show, Marvel’s double standard on objectifying characters, Netflix telling w...

This week, Kotaku interviewed an indie developer about how it seems a popular movie copied a scene from his game. Little did this developer know that Kotaku, being Kotaku, would write the article in their typical garbage, race-baiting style, and he called Kotaku out for it. We discuss the whole story along with former Kotaku CEO Stephen Totilo finding out more embarrassing stuff about Activision B...

When you think of video games, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Definitely not the divisive social issue of abortion, right? Well, apparently, some game studios thought it wise to speak in support of Roe v. Wade while Kotaku and others embarrassed themselves with terrible takes on the subject. We talk about it all along with diversity checklists in video games, including Activision Blizz...

We’ve reached peak lunacy as Kotaku publishes an article equating game developers who refuse to leave Twitter after Elon Musk’s purchase of the social media giant to war heroes. We make fun of games journalists losing their minds over the change along with Gene Park being crucified by the games press for going on Colin Moriarty’s podcast, Frosk from G4 demonstrating what an objectifying hypocrite...

A few games journalists and activists cried about trans representation in Grand Theft Auto V, so Rockstar quietly censored their own game. We discuss this cowardly decision along with a Resident Evil 4 developer’s support of censorship, Twitch’s sexism against men, a woke Cards Against Humanity clone, and Lara Croft’s slow transition to becoming a man.

Game Rant published a bizarre article arguing that the tragedies Elden Ring characters endure are gender coded, or, in other words, women and men in the game suffer in different ways and somehow that’s a problem. We break this idea down and also discuss a popular easy mode mod for Elden Ring along with a New York Times article that claims the game is successful only due to the COVID-19 pandemic, B...