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Polygon Purged Game Over for Activists in Gaming Media
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Game Over for Activists: Polygon’s Purge is a Herald of Change

The Game Has Changed (And So Have the Players) Another day, another group of pink-haired, pronoun-pushing “games journalists” shown the door - this time, courtesy of Valnet’s buyout of Polygon.And if that headline already made someone on Twitter clutch their Funko Pops, good. Because this isn’t just a one-off acquisition.It’s the latest checkpoint in a much bigger campaign: the de-wokification of gaming media. BREAKING - Game Journos reportedly laid off today:Polygon:Chris Plante – Co-founder and former Editor-in-ChiefMichael McWhertor – Senior WriterMatthew Reynolds – Deputy EditorTyler Colp – Games WriterNicole Carpenter – Senior ReporterFandom - GiantBomb:- Jeff Grubb -… pic.twitter.com/tiamZ5dIJR— Smash JT (@SmashJT) May 1, 2025 For years, gamers have been treated like problematic relics of a bygone era. We were told our desire to, y’know, actually enjoy video games was selfish, outdated, and somehow harmful to marginalized NPCs. But now? The tide’s […]

Ayefkay May 3, 2025

Woke.exe Gaming Media's Mirror of Projection
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Woke.exe Crashed: Gaming Media’s Mirror of Projection

The following article reflects the author's opinions and interpretations based on publicly available information and recordings. All individuals mentioned are encouraged to clarify or respond. Please do not harass anyone mentioned in this article for any reason. The Culture War Reloaded: Gaming's New Battlefront Welcome to ground zero of the gaming culture war - where pixels meet politics and everyone’s pointing fingers through cracked mirrors. In one corner, we’ve got ex-legacy media dinosaurs and DEI activists like Sweet Baby Inc., clutching pearls while playing gatekeeper. In the other?Developers, players, and creators just trying to make cool sh*t without pandering to woke ideologies and not checking twelve and a half identity boxes.From moral panic over “the wrong kind of representation” to journalists screaming victim while they plan harassment in questionable Discord servers, the hypocrisy is getting harder to ignore. Let's takes a flamethrower […]

Ayefkay April 20, 2025

Gaming Media and Weaponized Reporting for Assassins Creed Shadows and KCD2
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Gaming Media’s Selective Reporting and Weaponizing Controversy

Media Manufacturing Discourse and Sweeping Others Under the Rug Ah, gaming journalism - the noble profession where integrity bows before agendas, and headlines are more carefully curated than an Ubisoft press conference.Today, we dive into the strange case of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, two games with same-sex romance options, yet one got paraded around like the second coming of progressive gaming while the other got a footnote buried under a pile of Ubisoft PR fluff. Hans Capon: The Romance Option That Divided Gamers Let’s start with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, the sequel to the historically immersive RPG that made “realism” its entire personality. This time, the developers thought, “Hey, let’s add a little extra...choice,” and in came the ability to romance Lord Hans Capon. While Henry was canonically straight in the first game, I personally didn't […]

Ayefkay March 23, 2025

Smash JT and McDizzle Drama
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SmashJT and McDizzle: How a “Journalistic Experiment” Backfired

A Tale As Old As Time The internet is full of clout-chasers looking for their 15 minutes of fame, and the gaming industry is no exception.The latest case?YouTuber McDizzle Gaming decided the best way to make a name for himself was to take down a bigger name - SmashJT. And in doing so, he pulled one of the most dishonest tricks in the book: impersonating an Ubisoft employee to manipulate SmashJT into reporting false information, just to...prove a point?The result was a tangled mess of deception, hypocrisy, and a failed attempt at self-promotion. The Setup: A Dishonest "Test" of Integrity? McDizzle, under the guise of an Ubisoft employee, fed SmashJT a fake story about a made up Assasin's Creed: Shadows leak. I have a breaking, super-exclusive leak too: it's going to be bad.SmashJT, a former QA tester for Sony Online Entertainment […]

Ayefkay February 26, 2025

Gamergate 2.0 Echo Chamber Following the Money
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The Gamergate Media Echo Chamber: Following the Money

Too Many Coincidences Gaming media feels like an echo chamber. Same talking points. Same narratives. Same forced "hot takes" that just so happen to align with a particular agenda. But why? After following the money, it turns out the industry is way more interconnected than you'd think. Strap in - we're about to take a look behind the curtain and meet the wizard. Meet the Gaming Media's Main Characters Great Hill Partners In 2019, Great Hill Partners established G/O Media after purchasing the Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion from Univision Communications Inc. That purchase included several outlets, such as Deadspin, The Onion, Gizmodo, and Kotaku. Fast forward to today - Kotaku is surprisingly the last one still standing, though barely, considering the mass layoffs it has endured recently.But here’s where it gets interesting: In 2021, Blackstone GP Stakes (yes, that Blackstone) bought an undisclosed […]

Ayefkay February 7, 2025

Diversity in Gaming Devs The Story Behind the Numbers
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32% Diversity in Gaming Devs? The Story Behind the Numbers

The Latest Saga in Gaming's DEI Obsession Welcome to the twisted world of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in gaming. On the surface, a recent article by TheGamer shouts triumphantly that, "Women and Non-Binary Devs Now Make Up 32% of All Game Developers, Up from 24% in 2022." At first glance, it sounds like like we're heading towards their version of "progress". But when you unpack this narrative, things start to smell like a steaming bowl of overripe propaganda. Is this statistic truly the direction gaming is heading, or is it just another way to gatekeep and play identity politics? Grouping Women with Non-Binary: A Misleading Narrative First, let’s address the elephant in the room.Grouping women with people who identify as non-binary individuals under one umbrella is like saying apples and oranges are the same because they’re both fruits.Sure, women and people that identify […]

Ayefkay January 24, 2025

Gaming Media Machine Case Study in Bad Journalism
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The Broken Gaming Media: A Case Study in Bad Journalism

In a world where clout is currency and "journalistic integrity" is apparently an endangered species, we have another classic case of the gaming media tripping over its own hypocrisy.The drama began when SmashJT and industry veteran Mark Kern (aka Grummz) broke the story on smashjt.com about the departure of Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, from BioWare and EA after the game’s spectacular failure.But instead of a straightforward acknowledgment of their work, the story quickly spiraled into a tangled web of misattribution, gatekeeping, and self-serving "reporting." Breaking News or Breaking Bad? SmashJT posted the original scoop (backed by credible sources) and provided an in-depth breakdown of the fallout at BioWare. Kern added further legitimacy by sharing his insights, yet hours later, Jeff Grubb of GiantBomb fame-swooped in with a tweet saying, "Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Age, really […]

Ayefkay January 17, 2025

Marvel Rivals Review Secret Ingredient Why It's So Good
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Marvel Rivals: The Formula Western Games Can’t Understand

Marvel Rivals is the Heroic Game Changer we Needed Marvel Rivals has smashed onto the gaming scene like Hulk through a wall, leaving a trail of broken records and starstruck players. Yet, despite its undeniable success, there’s a weird undercurrent of criticism coming from legacy gaming media and the "modern" crowd of gamers that....no one's really surprised at anymore.They’re trying to compare it to other hero shooters like Overwatch or nitpick every design choice as if it’s the end of gaming civilization, when in the end - it's just a good game made for people that actually enjoy gaming.Bananas and blasphemy. Let’s cut through the noise. Marvel Rivals isn’t just a hero shooter—it’s a masterclass in how to balance great characters, creative design, and gameplay without pandering to tired ideologies or virtue signaling. It’s also a big, juicy middle finger to […]

Ayefkay January 7, 2025

Gaming Media Puts Black Myth Wukong In Their Sights Hit Job
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Legacy Gaming Media’s Hit Job on Black Myth: Wukong?

GAMING MEDIA WENT BANANAS WHILE GAMERS EMBRACED THE MONKEY KING The world of gaming is no stranger to controversy, but Black Myth: Wukong’s nomination for Game of the Year (GOTY) at The Game Awards has sparked a bizarre media pile-on that’s hard to ignore.If you’ve dared to Google “Black Myth: Wukong nominated for Game of the Year,” you’ve likely noticed something suspicious - almost every major gaming outlet seems to be running with the same angle: Black Myth: Wukong is the “lowest-rated game” to get a GOTY nod. Let’s unpack why this narrative stinks worse than a rotting peach. THE "LOWEST-RATED GOTY NOMINEE SMEAR CAMPAIGN Gaming outlets love to harp on Black Myth: Wukong's Metascore, repeatedly labeling it as undeserving of its nomination. But here’s the kicker: that “low score” wasn’t driven by player reviews - it was driven by […]

Ayefkay November 20, 2024

Dragon Age The Veilguard Failed
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Why the New Dragon Age is Failing with Flying Colors

Image Credit: Dragon Age: The Veilguard | BioWare | Electronic Arts Welcome to Dragon Age: The Veilguard, a title that's been in development for almost 10 years, estimated between $80 million and $200 million to make, and hyped as the next epic chapter in the Dragon Age saga while (twist ending) in reality it might just be the franchise’s very undoing. Because in a world where Baldur’s Gate 3 has already proven that players can have meaningful choices and gritty, raw freedom, The Veilguard only seems interested in talking down to their audience while shoveling their Concord-sized agenda down the unwilling throats of gamers everywhere. While I'm not going to sit and pretend that every single facet of this game was a complete disaster, I can say with unabashed certainty that, in a game that's supposed to be an immersive […]

Ayefkay November 4, 2024

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