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Nathan Grayson

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Twitch Changes Rules That Target Politics, ‘Sensitive’ Social Issues Following Widespread Pushback, But Streamers Still Wary

"They’re capitulating to bad faith actors who aren’t genuinely interested in justice or antiracism"

November 5, 2024

The Dragon Age Review Controversy Shows How Much YouTube And Twitter Have Poisoned Video Game Discourse

"The more you enable these people structurally or systematically, the more footing they gain until they become a default"

November 1, 2024

Fandom Lays Off 11 Percent Of Staff, GameSpot Affected

This follows additional rounds of layoffs in 2024 and 2023

October 30, 2024

Former Disco Elysium Devs Embrace Worker/Player-Owned Structure To Bring ‘True Democracy’ To Game Development

And because letting “random people steer a company Twitch Plays Pokémon-style” instead of venture capitalists is “fucking funny”

October 30, 2024

Sony Shuts Down Concord Developer Firewalk Studios

Sony will also "permanently sunset" Concord

October 29, 2024

Why Aren’t There More Games Based On Reality TV?

"There’s an element of people thinking they’re too smart for them"

October 25, 2024

How Content Creation Breaks People’s Brains

"This is a job with no rules and very few guardrails and potentially tons of money and potentially adoration. That is a very hard thing to walk away from or remember feeling bad about"

October 18, 2024