Tag: game design
In every meaningful movement, there’s a moment when temptation sneaks in — that urge to bend the rules just once, to brush aside a principle for the sake of a …
In the past decade, video games have undergone a dramatic and sinister shift—not in gameplay mechanics or technological innovation, but in the values and ideology subverting their creation. Terms like …
Daniel Vávra, the Czech game developer behind Mafia and Kingdom Come: Deliverance, has revealed that during the development of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, he feared being fired due to his …
The year 2024 A.D. was an important milestone in MMORPG History. EverQuest, the brainchild of Brad McQuaid and John Smedley had somehow survived for a quarter of a century. Over …
With the recent publication of Jason Schreir’s book Play Nice: The Rise and Fall of Blizzard, the topic of the Irvine studio’s demise is being hotly debated. I am reading …
There is no doubt in my mind that Blizzard Entertainment has been infiltrated by Satanists. Just last week, an in-game trailer of the Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred expansion was …
The following is a commentary-free summary of John Hight’s The First 30 Years of ‘Warcraft’: The Making of a Game Universe presentation at GDC 2024. INVEN, a Korean gaming website, …
Ex-Blizzard developer Mark Kern AKA Grummz is in the gaming news again. Along with Kabrutus and others, Kern is co-leading a gamer revolt against the forces of political correctness that …
One of the worst trends in the video game industry today is that developers feel the need to pander to people who suffer from the mental illness of gender dysphoria. …
As the Sweet Baby Inc. AKA Gamergate 2.0 scandal is still in progress, various woke legacy video game media outlets have slithered out of the woodwork and are now dutifully …
In the wake of the AIDS tragedy in the 1980s, gays turned into a political force to be reckoned with. On one hand, you had militant groups like Act UP …
Once upon a time, former Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo was considered one of the smartest people in the video game industry. In 2006, he joined an elite club …