In Real Life: The News From The Intersection Of Games & The Real World
Everything that affects the lives of gamers and things gamers care about is right here. If it’s a brush with the law, new legislation affecting gaming, or just the many cool things happening in gaming culture, IRL’s the place to be.
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GameStop Meme Stock Villain Buys Copy Of The Constitution For $59 Million
1Here are some words I never thought I’d type: the hedge fund CEO that bailed out GameStop short sellers earlier this year just secretly outbid a hyped-up bunch of crypto lords for an ultra rare copy of the original U.S. Constitution. Earlier this year, billionaire Kenneth Griffin became public enemy number one for GameStonk acolytes.…
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An Open Thread If You Need To Vent
I said at the beginning of the year that it felt weird to talk about video games as a right-wing mob stormed the United States capitol building. Sad to say, that feeling hasn’t let up in the last 10 months and change, especially with the news currently dominating today’s headlines.
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Resurgence Of Facism Forces Warhammer To Remind Fans Imperium Are Villains
Some Warhammer 40,000 players think the game’s fascist Imperium of Man faction is awesome, and actually has a few good ideas. It does not. To clarify this point — which more than one Warhammer 40K fan appears to have missed — maker Games Workshop put out a statement saying that you do not, under any…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Friends and loved ones: the weekend. What’s on for the weekend? Got any games you plan to chew through? For me, I think it’s mostly going to be Halo Infinite multiplayer (and keep an eye out for an important Halo piece on that going up here on Kotaku AU later tonight). Gotta grind up that…
