A crisis of conscience forced the original creator of The BattleTech subreddit Clean the house at the weekend. This creator, Reddit user ddevil63returned with a vengeance, removing every single moderator on the 15-year-old message board of nearly 50,000 members after those mods repeatedly banned any mention of fan-made content BattleTechTopic zine written by queer writers. ...
Happy Pride everyone! We’re updating and republishing this list of some of the Switch’s best and most comprehensive games to mark Pride Month. To enjoy! The gaming industry hasn’t always been good at portraying LGBTQ+ relationships and identities, but thanks to the efforts of small studios, independent developers, and LGBTQ+ creators, that’s starting to change. ...
screenshot: blizzard Today Activision Blizzard announced three upcoming programs surveillance 2‘s competitive and recreational scene. These aim to promote a healthy environment, with a focus on the new and returning LGBTQ+ player base. In a blog post titled “Calling all heroes,” the over watch Team and its competitive esports program Overwatch League (OWL) announced that ...
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantisphoto: SOPA images (Getty Images) The next big Games Done Quick event, Awesome Games Done Quick in January, will be an online-only event, according to the show’s organizers released a statement say, “We don’t think so [Florida] is a safe place for our community” in light of the state’s lazy policy ...
Pride Month may have ended, but pride (lowercase) is all year round — and that includes video games. Fortnite has added a new event called Rainbow Royale to the game, celebrating diversity, community, and its many LGBTQ+ players with rainbow items, new songs by LGBTQ+ artists, and massive pride flags. The rainbow items include: Four ...
“I am very strange myself. Representatives mean a lot to me. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, where you have to read carefully between the lines to find any expression that is more than tragedy, horror or slander,” Apex Legends Chief writer Amanda Doiron told me. “It makes you feel weirder-there is more ...
Apple has a completely different policy in each of the countries where it is present. A clear example is in China, where it acts in a completely different way than it does in most Western countries, due to pressure from the Chinese government. However, it is not the only country, with Russia and Saudi Arabia ...
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation publishes each year a report on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI). Companies are evaluated with regard to the implementation of work-friendly guidelines and benefits for LGBTQ people. For example, its latest report, released on Friday, cited several big names in the video game industry for their perfect score. Indeed on ...
