Micro-transactions and the problem with catering to the Chinese
Over the past two decades, China has become an economic power house thanks to its rising middle class. For western companies, this has meant a fresh, new, and lucrative, market…
Op Ed
Unionization probably won’t stop crunch time
An article came out earlier this week claiming that Rockstar developers were putting in 100 hour weeks to finish up Red Dead Redemption 2. Once again it's opened up a…
Leaked report unmasks Google’s censorship plan
A damning report leaked to Breitbart has seemingly confirmed what a lot of us have long suspected, that Google is moving to increase censorship on the mainstream internet. The 85-page…
The Verge builds a crappy PC, uses blow back to attack PCMR
If you're into PC gaming, you've probably seen the infamous video by now. Garbage tier website The Verge attempted, key word being "attempted", to show you how to build your…
Get woke, go broke: SJWs don’t buy video games
Last week, EA announced that pre-orders for Battlefield V are unexpectedly weak. Which should surprise absolutely nobody. The game had come under fire for historical inaccuracy and pandering to social activists.…
Nvidia RTX: Did Tom’s Hardware go full shill?
Never go full shill When I die, my last thoughts will be about how much time I spent not having ray tracing in my life. At least that's according to…
Facebook’s trustworthiness rating a tumble down the social credit rabbit hole
Facebook, in order to combat "fake news", is implementing a trustworthiness rating. No, it's not for ranking articles, but rather to rank you. Well, there's your taste of Orwell for…
Total Biscuit and BioWare’s major culture problem
Well known games critic John "Total Biscuit" Bain passed away this week after a long battle with cancer. The gaming community plunged into mourning at the news. Well, everyone except BioWare's David Cooks,…
Should video game journalists be good at games?
Should games journalists be good at games? The recent release of Cuphead has reignited an age old debate over the legitimacy of video games media, or rather some of the…
#WTFU
I've tried a few times to write an article about YouTube's current copyright issues and Doug "Nostalgia Critic" Walker's #WTFU (Where's the Fair Use) campaign. I'll bang something out, then come…