Luke Winkie
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Sex Games Are Voice Acting’s Wildest New Frontier
To the voice actress known as SilkyMilk, the most important part of her job is authenticity.
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The Twitch Streamers Who Put People To Sleep (Literally)
I don’t know if I’ve ever been fully conscious for an entire David “Dog” Caero Twitch stream. The Hearthstone personality (and now inaugural Masters Tour champion) lives in Nevada, which means that when he hits the internet, it’s already twilight in my Brooklyn apartment. There’s nothing to blame but human chemistry; Hearthstone is a sedate…
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The Story Of Chiller, One Very Messed Up Video Game
The old parental and Congressional outrage about video games was always pretty stupid. The belief that video games represented some phantasmagoric nadir for youth culture, the idea that you could encrypt Satanism into a Super Nintendo, none of that held up.
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The Struggle Over Gamers Who Use Mods To Create Racist Alternate Histories
Last December, a 22-year-old modder who calls himself Ted52 purged the Steam forums for his Hearts of Iron 4 mod, Millennium Dawn. Steam’s infrastructure made it difficult to remove unsavoury threads individually, and he tells me he has more control of things over at his Discord channel, where he can eliminate any racists, idiots and…