On July 23, in response to the ongoing reactions to a black main character in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadowdeveloper Ubisoft released a detailed statement. The responses on X (formerly Twitter) were exactly what you’d expect: racist imagery, insults, and demands for historical accuracy in a video game series that has always been steeped in ...
Former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, is campaigning to prove he’s not a boring, charisma-less nutcase. It’s not going well. Kotaku hopes for the (reported) comeback of Spyro The Dragon Last week, Donald Trump announced that he had chosen Ohio Senator JD Vance is his candidate for vice president. Vance is known ...
Twitch was unblocked today Donald Trumpofficial channel. The Amazon-owned video game streaming site lifted the ban due to Trump’s status as the official Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election following the party’s convention earlier this week. Meet the filmmaker behind this Legend of Zelda speedrunning documentary On June 29, 2020, the Twitch account of ...
photo: Rebecca Droke (Getty Images) The FBI has determined 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks as a suspect in the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania yesterday. Following the incident, a rush was made to identify any online accounts that were linked to the suspected shooter and could explain ...
I know we’ve tried to banish as much time as possible from our collective memory, but if you remember Donald Trump’s presidency and the year 2017 in particular, you may recall one of the strangest stories ever told It starred Disney, an animatronic robot, and Hillary Clinton. Disney’s new post-apocalyptic anime proves the mouse has ...
So-called generative AI has caused a veritable earthquake on the Internet, and its influence on society, for better or for worse, is only beginning to be felt. The dangers of ChatGPT and other AIs for creating text are already apparent, but we cannot forget about AIs capable of creating images and videos. [Los creadores de ...
photo: Win McNamee (Getty Images) There was a time, not long ago if you can believe it, when Microsoft could publish a news blog about its plans to make the Xbox greener and nobody would really turn a blind eye. The world would go on, maybe a little less polluted, and that would be all. ...
Rep. Mike Garcia on the campaign trailphoto: Myung J Chun (Getty Images) While it’s normal for prominent businessmen to donate on both sides of the political aisle, so that whoever wins an election, they can call in some favors, as the Republican Party continues to slide to the right Some of the supported candidates deserve ...
Ben Palmer is invited to the cookout. Screenshot: Meta / Kotaku It would be so satisfying if corporations and brands more often called out racism and other ills in their comments sections on social media. In the responses to a recent Xbox post on Facebook, it appeared at first glance that the console-maker had done ...
