Splash Damage

A trailer for Stellar Blade: Blood Rain released, and everyone who detests attractive women in games instantly accused the new protagonist, Evie, of looking like a child. We discuss the reaction along with Shift Up’s defense of her design along with news of Grand Theft Auto VI and the Steam Machine’s prices, Microsoft’s ridiculous “considerations” for developers and their shuttering of Xbox studio...

Another one of PlayStation’s exclusive franchises is following the trend of replacing its mainstay male protagonist with a woman. In God of War: Laufey, Kratos is out, and you instead will play as his dead wife, Faye. We discuss this trend and what it means for the series along with Halo’s dumb gay pride skins, Subnautica 2’s refusal to kill flora and fauna that can easily kill you, and Fortnite’s...

The developers of Lords of the Fallen 2 claimed it would include attractive female characters, and they delivered: Concept art from the game shows its women will wear somewhat revealing fantasy outfits. The drew the ire of industry staples, including The Gamer. We discuss their reaction to the art along with Slay the Spire 2’s reviews tanking after it came to light Anita Sarkeesian was involved in...

God of War creator David Jaffe tweeted he thought the greedy, big-nosed goblins of Crimson Desert are antisemitic, hilariously showing what he thinks of real-world Jews. We discuss the irony of being so anti-racist that you end up sounding incredibly racist, along with news that the Mass Effect show is being rewritten to appeal to non-gamers, Ryan Gosling’s based take on Hollywood making movies wo...

Female gamers are frothing at the mouth over Resident Evil: Requiem’s attractive main character, Leon Kennedy. We discuss the hypocrisy of celebrating a male character’s attractiveness after years of insulting gamers for enjoying attractive female characters, along with Highguard’s shutdown, Nvidia’s depressing AI tech that alters games in real time, Alanah Pearce’s defense of the sex minigames in...

Relooted, an African-developed game about black people heisting museums for artifacts to return them to the cultures from which they came, released to a resounding 57 players on Steam. Despite being an utter failure for “modern audiences,” Kotaku and PC Gamer are covering the game as if it’s actually popular. We discuss the situation along with TheGamer’s complaints about Overwatch’s new female he...

Despite assurances that Assassin’s Creed Shadows was nothing but a success, Ubisoft has canceled six projects, delayed others, and closed two studios, plummeting their stock. We discuss the company’s recent and future woes along with the diversity of the upcoming Fable game, the poor sales of Outer Worlds 2, Highguard’s mid reception, and plenty more!

Lords of the Fallen 2 developer and publisher Hexworks and CI Games are getting flak in the video game industry for a single tweet that confirmed the game will feature attractive characters and outfits. We discuss how far video games have fallen that this creative decision is worthy of ridicule, along with Sony’s AI patent that will censor games in real time, Ubisoft admitting Assassin’s Creed Sha...

By all accounts, this should have been a big year for gaming, but recent releases such as Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ghost of Yotei, and Outer Worlds 2 are not selling as well as developers (and shareholders) perhaps hoped. We discuss why they might be underperforming along with Ubisoft’s potential pending destruction, a Eurogamer reviewer who admitted to regretting giving Dragon Age: The Veilguard...

CNN wrote a lengthy piece illustrating how the male gaze is returning, bringing with it the things human beings actually find attractive in media. We talk about this welcomed return to sanity along with Microsoft continuing to kill the Xbox brand by increasing console and Game Pass subscription costs, EA being sold to Saudis, and the weird social justice games indoctrinating children in Roblox.

Several game developers, including a prominent one behind Ghost of Yotei, mocked Charlie Kirk’s assassination. We discuss the irony of “anti”-fascists celebrating a political opponent being killed for his free speech along with Sweet Baby Inc.’s hilarious take on colonialism in cozy games, Metal Gear Solid Delta’s trigger warning, the failure of Relooted, and more.

In an amazing case of everyone involved with the train wreck that was Dragon Age: The Veilguard continuing to fail upwards, Bethesda has hired one of the lead writers of the game, presumably to work on Elder Scrolls VI. We discuss our eroding faith in the anticipated game along with Polygon calling Street Fighter 6 fans gooners, voice actor ProZD’s hypocrisy when it comes to “diversity” in casting...

It seems everyone from governments to giant companies to random grassroots groups are suddenly gunning for video game censorship. We discuss recent pushes made to quell what games people are able to buy along with Xbox and PlayStation shifting away from hardware, reviewers dinging great games for the sin of including attractive female characters, and Obsidian dropping the price of the upcoming Out...

Wonderfilled Games created GiantLands, a game that proudly imagines a future with no white people. We discuss the open and blatant racism of the game along with insider rumors that diversity is being removed from games in response to Trump’s America, Ubisoft’s hilarious idea to make consumers destroy copies of their games once support for them ends, Polygon’s plea for trigger warnings in Death Str...

Popular PlayStation 5 exclusive Stellar Blade just launched on PC, and it’s the best-performing PS exclusive ever released on PC, despite games journalists constantly (and hypocritically) trying to smear it. We discuss its success and journalists’ out-of-touch takes on the game along with its CEO’s based take on modding games, RuneScape’s canceled pride event, Jason Schreier’s ignorant reporting o...

Since Ubisoft won’t release official sales data for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, internet sleuths have put together their best guess, and it’s not good. We discuss the lackluster sales along with fan reactions to Ciri being the protagonist and a witcher in the upcoming Witcher IV, author Brandon Sanderson showing an example of how Hollywood purposefully butchers TV and movie versions of beloved IPs,...

A small studio of about thirty ex-Ubisoft developers have released an ambitious, critically and commercially acclaimed RPG called Clair Obscur: Expedition. Despite being made by such a small team, it’s blowing the woke, bloated AAA industry out of the water. We discuss how the video game industry at large should be embarrassed by this indie game’s success along with The Last of Us show’s plummetin...

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered shadow-dropped this week, and while it’s mostly faithful to the original 2006 game, it has been adjusted in some ways for “modern audiences.” We discuss these changes along with the announcement of the Nintendo Switch 2 and its expensive games, Sweet Baby Inc. being dropped by Sony, and Compulsion Games’ distaste for white men.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is out, and while Ubisoft keeps bragging about how many millions of people have played it, the truth is sales are down in Japan, and the game got fewer concurrent players than Dragon Age: The Veilguard. We discuss the game’s launch along with TheGamer’s hilarious article comparing Monster Hunter Wilds’ success to Veilguard’s failure, the Invincible graphic novel creator’s...

Randy Pitchford, CEO of the Borderlands franchise, couldn’t help but shoot himself in the foot by going on a tirade after a loyal fan criticized the direction of the upcoming Borderlands 4. We discuss his overreaction along with news that there’s maybe only two dozen full-time games journalists left, Monster Hunter Wilds knowing how to make attractive female characters, thoughts on Avowed, Overwat...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is out, and it includes several woke and out-of-place elements that never would have been included in the decidedly anti-woke original game from 2018. We discuss the 180-degree turn for the series along with BioWare downsizing and EA learning nothing since Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s failure, Ghost of Yotei’s impending horrible writing, the downplay of Yasuke in the up...

The sales figures for Dragon Age: The Veilguard are out, and they show the game fell short of sales expectations by fifty percent. We discuss what this means for Bioware along with drama surrounding the upcoming Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Ubisoft’s change to the description of Yasuke from “samurai” to “warrior” in Japanese marketing for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Xbox censoring female characters...

The developers of the upcoming Witcher 4 game admitted at least part of the story will focus on the struggles of being a woman in a medieval world. This isn’t necessarily a red flag, but when you consider other suspicious things about the game and CD Projekt Red, it’s a cause for concern for many fans. We discuss these warning signs along with Helldivers 2’s director’s advice to game makers to foc...

Not a single American-made game was nominated for The Game Awards’ game of the year this year, proving how bleak the industry has gotten stateside. We discuss the annual awards show, including the controversial Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet trailer, along with the success of Marvel Rivals compared to Concord, Ubisoft possibly going bankrupt, the pending death of Xbox consoles, and Sony’s atte...

The art director of the upcoming RPG Avowed is in some hot water after basically admitting to discriminatory hiring practices against white men at Obsidian, the studio he works for. We discuss the hypocritical and blatant racism of such stances along with an IGN article about the burst of the blockbuster game bubble; Kotaku’s defense of Dragon Age: The Veilguard being “snubbed” from the Game Award...