Let’s say you’ve already spent some time in the United States Army, a vicious colonial project that in recent years has been weaponized by a government with even more openly fascistic tendencies than ...

Ever since Microsoft laid off 1,600 employees and—in the process—kicked multiple studios to the curb, there’s been uncertainty about how the split will impact games originally published under its ...

Palmer Lucky is an evil fucking worm and dipshit beneficiary of government contracts. He’s the Oculus jackass with a shitty soul patch who runs a military defense company called Anduril. I could ...

The first time I wrote about the upcoming 1666: Amsterdam was when the game's reveal was found to be riddled with some absolutely dogshit AI-generated imagery. The second, and hopefully final, time is ...

Late last week, the Esports World Cup – a known vehicle for Saudi government sportswashing – announced that popular location guessing game GeoGuessr will be participating in its upcoming Esports World ...

“Unc” is, apparently, the latest gamer term or gen Z slang to enter our common parlance. Articles have argued it originated recently, from young people, who use it as an insult to old people. Except ...

Welcome signs on the road into Maryland bear a slogan chosen by the governor. The last guy went with “Open for business.” In 2023, the new governor updated the signs with his own motto, the one I saw ...

Hello [local business owner]! I see that you've started posting new ads and menus on Facebook, Instagram and sometimes even outside your store on physical signs, and they're starting to look ...

The following is an excerpt from CTRL: Essays on Video Games, a book published by The Lilliput Press and edited by Dean Fee. Chasing Lilacs, by Brenda Romero, is a personal history told through the ...

Share to X Share to Bluesky Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share by email "Defendants’ decision to work with such criminal enterprises alone signals willful intent to engage in unlawful activity, ...

When Dark Souls II came out in 2014, I previewed and reviewed it for Kotaku. After I played the Looking Glass Knight demo at E3, I gushed to a friend that they had not fucked it up. This had been a ...

Polygon is not dead, but under new owner Valnet, it has been forcefully contorted into something it wasn’t even just a few weeks ago. Websites are their people; laying off the majority of a site’s ...