“Straight White Dude” Speaks Up About “Forced Diversity” In Gaming

Back in the day when I was into video games, the issue of diversity never occurred to me. I played games like Tekken and Mario Kart, happily changing between a variety of characters from an Italian plumber to a kickass Japanese woman, a mushroom and a Russian robot commando. I was spoilt for choice for diversity, and never once thought that I needed a character ‘like me’ to feel represented. The idea of playing video games was to escape to a fantasy world and be ‘someone else’ for a while.…

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13-Year-Old World Of Warcraft Fan Lies To Other Gamers He’s 14, 4 Years Later Has To Do College Because Of It

Whether it is to avoid punishment or embarrassment, sometimes we all lie. However, some lies which suppose to help us get out of uncomfortable situations can escalate into something so immense that telling the truth is no longer an option. So what can you do instead? Well, if you are dedicated to your lie enough you can take an example from one Reddit user who took the effort to turn their lie into reality. More info: reddit.com A couple of years ago, when somebody on Reddit asked to share one…

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Elon Musk Posts Hilarious Tweet About ‘Buying And Deleting Fortnite’

Getty Uh oh, Elon Musk deleted Fortnite – according to a good joke made by Elon Musk. The billionaire tech mogul screen-grabbed a headline from a satirical ‘news’ story website which joked he had bought and deleted Fortnite, the Epic Games Battle Royale online phenomenon. For anyone who doesn’t get the joke, this might clear up a few things: Elon Musk shared the fake headline with his 23 million Twitter followers, many of whom presumably consider themselves part of the tech and gaming communities. Underneath the lead, the caption fake-quoted…

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‘Spider-Man’ borrows from Marvel movies with a post-credits peek at the future

What’s next for Marvel’s Spider-Man? The end credits have answers. The Marvel Cinematic Universe knows how to keep fans on the hook, and it’s got everything to do with all of those dang post-credits scenes. Every fan is trained at this point: Whenever there’s a new movie, we wait and we watch the credit roll in anticipation of a tease for what’s next. SEE ALSO: ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man’ Review: You really can do whatever a spider can The same holds true in Marvel’s Spider-Man (that’s the official title of the PS4…

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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey falls far short of its own wondrous sandbox

It’s hard to imagine a better demonstration of the state of AAA gaming today than Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, a game where the whole of the wine-dark Classical Aegean is available for you to ply with your oars — but which operates according to a risible, cartoonish video game logic that seems, if possible even more anachronistic. Should you play it? Absolutely. (Very minor spoilers ahead.) In case you haven’t been following the Assassin’s Creed… well, odyssey, the last few years, the game took some time off following the lavishly produced…

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Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime on Wii U ‘stumbles’ and balancing nostalgia with reinvention

Nintendo is nearing its 130th birthday, and the company is once again in the midst of major changes as it embraces mobile platforms and online services. But Nintendo of America’s president Reggie Fils-Aime says that should come as no surprise: “We reinvent ourselves every five or 10 years. We have to. It’s in our DNA.” In an interview at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Fils-Aime talked, in his immaculately Nintendo-promotional manner, about the company’s ups and downs over the last decade and what it took to get the Switch out…

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