Splash Damage

People are finally beginning to realize Ash Parrish’s race-baiting antics for what they are; readers criticized a recent article in which she reduced a gamer’s record-breaking achievement to her race. We discuss how Ash is incapable of seeing anything but skin color along with Kotaku’s cringe take on the NYPD’s game truck, a game developer white knighting for a feminist who insulted him, how “adap...

This past week, video game developer Chris Avellone broke his silence on sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him a year ago. Forbes writer Erik Kain was the first to report on this newsworthy event, and for his troubles, video game journalists trashed him. This wasn’t the only heat Kain faced this week; he also garnered attention for criticizing The Gamer’s awful take on a press event. W...

Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon announced his retirement after receiving death threats and harassment over his benign, right-leaning political views. We discuss games journalists’ reaction to his political donations along with the good and bad of E3, the laughable state of Kotaku since Patricia Hernandez became editor in chief, and a cringe VG24/7 article comparing Mass Effect 2 to t...

IGN wrote a piece this week criticizing Dice for saying Battlefield 2042’s story and setting themes exist only for gameplay reasons. We discuss game journalists’ penchant for demanding games take polarizing political stances, Kotaku holding a grudge against Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s ongoing success, the Tolkien Society going woke, and Wargamer’s reminder to not be racist while playing Dungeons &...

Only three days into Pride Month, Kotaku got upset with how gay characters are represented in video games. We discuss Kotaku’s regressive complaint about queer representation in Injustice 2 Mobile along with Patricia Hernandez becoming the site’s new editor-in-chief, Asian-American voice actors hypocritically expecting only Asians to voice anime, how dumb it is to have wheelchair-bound heroes in D...

In their never-ending quest to link video games to unrelated real-world issues, Polygon and Paste published pieces talking about Mass Effect’s police state mentality. We break these hilariously bad articles down and also talk about Twitch’s new hot tub streaming category and marginalized channel tags along with the fallout from gaming sites weighing in on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Vice was so offended by Mass Effect 2’s Overlord DLC that they published a piece calling for its outright censorship in the series’ Legacy Edition. We talk about how ludicrous it is to blame a fictional villain’s “ableism” on the writers who made him along with Anita Sarkeesian’s terrible take and IGN’s stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict, Devolver Digital supporting Sarkeesian’s grifting, Act...

Game Rant wrote an article based on a single streamer’s complaint that Valkyrie, the new playable character in Apex Legends, does not represent her Japanese heritage enough. We break down this silly complaint and also discuss ZombaeKillz and Girl From Canada being eaten alive by their woke allies, games journalists thinking it’s just fine to not be good at or finish the games they’re reviewing, an...

As is their custom, Kotaku published a stupid piece saying including white cis women characters in games isn’t progressive enough, adding more proof to the never-ending pile of evidence that video game journalists will never be satisfied with their social justice agenda. We also discuss Dia Lacina’s terrible takes on politics in Returnal and Nier’s auto-battle system, Jeffrey Grubb simping for Lac...

Wokies are accusing a game where you play as a Native American chief fighting colonialists of being racist. I break down the completely ridiculous controversy and discuss other recent news, including Diablo II censorship, more Six Days in Fallujah nonsense, a Kotaku story about “black pain” I actually kind of agree with, Marvel comparing Jordan Peterson to Red Skull, and Twitch’s new offsite condu...

Extra Credits recently released a video that implies that evil, ugly orcs in video games are an obvious stand-in for real black people, among other hilariously terrible takes. We watch and break down the video along with their take from last year that WWII shooters will turn players into Nazis. We also discuss some of the cringe writing in Outriders, Kotaku writing a story based on an obvious trol...

Cancel culture has reached a new peak with prominent games journalists and developers alike calling on the government to censor the upcoming Six Days in Fallujah. We recap the events leading up to a petition to cancel the game along with Eurogamer getting offended over It Takes Two’s love story, Ghost of Tsushima getting made into a movie, and Kotaku defaming the developer of Super Seducer 3.

IGN recently published a piece criticizing the unreleased Six Days in Fallujah because a very specific clique in the gaming sphere is upset it doesn’t have the "right" politics. We talk about critics’ reactions to the upcoming game along with Kotaku calling passionate Dying Light 2 fans “toxic,” woke Twitter crying over a jiggle physics mod for Super Smash Bros., Super Seducer 3 being outright ban...

Troy Leavitt has revealed why he left the development of Hogwarts Legacy. We discuss his response to the games press’s attempted character assassination along with other examples of “propaganda press,” including Kotaku’s piece about developers being forced to work during a natural disaster and Polygon implying Six Days in Fallujah is apolitical.

Troy Leavitt, a Hogwarts Legacy developer who has made YouTube videos critical of woke nonsense, announced he is leaving the project after games journalists’ attempt to cancel him. Leavitt hasn’t unveiled why he quit, but we discuss the development along with the fact Hogwarts Legacy will include trans options in its character creator, Twitch’s screw up calling women “womxn,” Attack on Titan being...

Troy Leavitt, the lead designer of the upcoming Hogwarts Legacy, is being accused of sexism and other nastiness all for having a YouTube channel that doesn’t toe the woke line games journalists demand the industry follow. We discuss the attempt to cancel developers over “thoughtcrimes” along with the hypocrisy of women, such as Anita Sarkeesian, who claim to oppose harassment, Sony’s censorship of...

Gina Carano, known for playing Cara Dune in The Mandalorian, has been fired from her role and agency. Her crime? Comparing her political opponents to Nazis, something the left has been doing without consequence for years. We break down this story and all its juicy details and rehash the Mass Effect butt shot controversy and talk Steam’s censorship of Super Seducer 3.

Game journalists this week were quick to shame Mass Effect fans who are upset the upcoming trilogy remake will remove camera angles that focus on Miranda’s butt. We discuss the double standard the gaming industry has when it comes to sexualization (see: Jin Sakai’s celebrated naked cheeks in Ghost of Tsushima), Stephen Totilo’s departure from Kotaku, IGN rehashing the Rowling transphobia controver...

GameStop stocks are on the fritz after Wall Street manipulated the market, and, like always, GamerGate is being blamed. We discuss the stock situation and also talk about Ninja’s stance on streaming with women and teaching viewers about racism, the representation of trans people and women in Cyberpunk 2077 (again), Twitch’s policies that protect some while leaving room to attack white men, Ubisoft...

A games journalist stirred up controversy this week when she made the laughable claim that men don’t like playing as female characters, using some of the most popular video game franchises as examples. We discuss the very predictable fallout from this strawman in addition to people overreacting to making Cyberpunk 2077 characters romanceable, New York Times reporting on screen addiction, a Mortal...

After removing its most popular emote from the site, Twitch announced a different streamer would become the new PogChamp each day. Three days into this policy, Critical Bard was PogChamp and landed in hot water for his questionable comments on race. We discuss Twitch’s double standards along with the irony of Capcom cracking down on “questionable” fan content, CD Projekt Red’s leadership taking th...

The narrative has jumped from “video games cause violence” to “video games cause fascism” as the riots at Capitol Hill are being blamed on gamers. We discuss why this is a ludicrous idea along with the other game-related fallout from the riots, plus Kotaku’s “gamers” of the year and the push to censor Top Hat Studios’ Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story.

Cyberpunk 2077 had such a horrible launch on last-gen consoles that the game is being refunded, no questions asked, and has been pulled from Sony’s digital storefront. We discuss the fallout from this unprecedented disaster along with Devotion being censored again, Twitch banning the words “simp” and “incel,” what happened during The Game Awards, and Kotaku’s hilariously bad takes on everything fr...

Nearly every major review of Cyberpunk 2077 shoehorns in long tangents about trans representation, for some reason. Video game critic Sophia Narwitz, who happens to be trans herself, joins the show to discuss the gaming media’s activist mentality and clique-like nature. Listen as we discuss trans voices, in-game ads, “fetishization,” nonbinary options, and other nonsense games journalists can’t sh...

Cyberpunk 2077 is only days from release, but Polygon wrote an article of pent-up angst about the game’s marketing over the past two years. We make fun of their offense over such a progressive game and also discuss Polygon’s failure to condemn people who harassed an Animal Crossing player over her hairstyle of choice, Twitch getting rid of the tag “blind playthrough,” why inverted controls have no...