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Fighting Game Community’s Leading Voice Calls For Accountability In Sexual Harassment Fallout
Shoryuken, one of the most respected voices in the fighting games community, has called upon its readers and followers to deal honestly with questions of misogyny and sexual harassment, following sexist match commentary on a controversy that has roiled the fighting games community for a second day.
Help Us Say Something Nice About Fighting Gamers
The fighting game scene has taken a lot of criticism this week due to the controversy surrounding one player’s harassment of another player on Capcom’s internet reality show Cross Assault.
Killing People With Unmanned Drones By Makers Of WikiLeaks Video Game
No modern-day military practice comes under more fire than unmanned aerial vehicle attacks. Bombing by UAV gets called out as cowardly or as a morally indefensible method of waging combat. It’s derisively been called video game warfare, a way of distancing the American public from the acts of violence done in their name. Fittingly, then, there’s now a video game about it.
How The Awesome Deus Ex: Human Revolution Title Sequence Got Its Upgrades
It’s many months in the past now, but you probably remember watching the title sequence for Deus Ex: Human Revolution and thinking “This game is going to be awesome.” That’s exactly what it was supposed to do.
What Is Cosplay?
Almost every time we make a cosplay post here on Kotaku, the questions come out. Why are these grown men and women playing dress-ups? Why are these women (and sometimes men) walking around showing so much skin?
8-Bit Weapon’s Latest Music Video Sports Iconic Game Characters As Guest Stars
The video above is supposed to be an homage to the 1980s graphic adventure games published by Sierra On-Line. But, if you watch the whole thing, you’ll spot some characters who weren’t part of that defunct publisher’s stable.
The 10 Most Bogus Entries In The Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer’s Edition
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I remember being awed at when the TV specials based on the Guinness Book of World Records would show up on network TV. I’d see really big things! Really small things! Weird life forms out of 1950s monster comics! A guy who’d never cut his fingernails, like, ever!
California Pulls Portal Prank On New York
In Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood sits Alamo, a giant cube sculpture by Tony Rosenthal which dates back to 1967. The artwork, a.ka. the Cube, lives not far from New York University, The New School, and few other landmarks. It’s been in music videos by Cypress Hill and other groups and has been the subject of a few pranks, including one that turned it into a giant Rubik’s Cube.
From Portal To Smash Brothers The Video Game Music Choir Does Not Disappoint
The Video Game Music Choir is a Boston based group that exclusively sings video game music . With arrangements from Portal, Uncharted, and Sonic Adventure 2, they have a little bit of something for everybody.
Samsung Flies A Nomadic Namibian To Korean Video Games Olympics In Exploitative Stunt
Cwi Nqani’s brush with video game greatness could’ve been mapped on the plot points of The Air Up There, Cool Runnings or The Gods Must Be Crazy or really any shallow movie where people from different cultures collide in an explosion of hilarity. As reported by CNN, the 32-year-old was selling his rural ethnic group’s crafts in Namibia’s capital city of Windhoek next to a tent where a World Cyber Games representative was hosting the country’s national championships. Despite never seeing or playing digital games before, Nqani was the only person to play the Asphalt 6 mobile racing game, which automatically qualified him for a spot in the world finals. Those finals happened two weeks ago.
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