Video Games

By ThatParkPlace, 6 September, 2024

Revenue for HoYoverse’s Genshin Impact increased over 8% in August compared to July in spite of the active boycott against the game and developer. A boycott of Genshin Impact and HoYoverse was launched back in July with a petition titled “Stop Cultural Appropriation and Whitewashing in MiHoYo Games.” The petition states, “We call on MiHoYo […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 6 September, 2024

Warner Bros. Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels recently revealed that one of the company’s “biggest priorities” is a Hogwarts Legacy successor. During an appearance at Bank of America’s 2024 Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference, Variety reported that Wiedenfels said, “Obviously, a successor to ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ is one of the biggest priorities in a couple of years […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 6 September, 2024

Sweet Baby Inc. CEO Kim Belair continued to trot out the victim card while also attempting to deny that her company’s end goal is to wokeify and take over the video game industry. In an interview with Black Girl Gamers on YouTube, Belair said, “I think of us almost as patient zero of this wave […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 5 September, 2024

Humberly González, the actress who portrays Kay Vess in Star Wars Outlaws, says the video game industry has a lot of misogyny while also praising Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment for ensuring the only character in the game is female. In an interview with CGM in the middle of August, the outlet’s Dayna Eileen asked, “So […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 5 September, 2024

Hiroki Totoki, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Sony shared that he does not believe the company has enough original IP as it attempts to completely overhaul the company from a consumer electronics company to a global entertainment company. In an interview with Financial Times, Totoki shared, “Whether it’s for games, films or anime, we […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 5 September, 2024

Jon Weisnewski, the Lead Character Designer for Firewalk Studios’ Concord claims the game being “shipped at all is legendary” after the game was shut down in less than two weeks. Firewalk Studios Game Director Ryan Ellis announced at the beginning of September that Concord was getting shut down on September 6th and that the company […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 4 September, 2024

Senior Community Manager for Remedy Entertainment Vida Starčević called for “bigots” to be removed from gaming communities in the wake of Firewalk Studios’ Concord being boycotted and shut down due to low sales. Niko Partners Director of Research Daniel Ahmad initially reacted to the game being shut down, “The comments around Concord from right wing […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 4 September, 2024

A new report indicates that the estimated single-player campaign length for Saber Interactive and Focus Entertainment’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is only between 6 to 10 hours. Brandon Morgan at Insider Gaming claims, “It takes approximately 8-10 hours to finish the campaign in Space Marine 2 on standard difficulty settings.” YouTuber Force Gaming shared that […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 4 September, 2024

In the wake of Firewalk Studios and PlayStation shutting down Concord after just two weeks, gamers are already setting their sites on boycotting the anti-capitalist game Fairgame$ from Haven Studios. Haven Studios, a subsidiary of PlayStation Studios and Sony Interactive Entertainment announced the game with a CGI trailer back in May 2023. As you can […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 4 September, 2024

Numerous gamers have indicated they will boycott anything Quantic Dream produces or publishes following the company’s virtue signal following the complete and utter commercial failure of Red Thread Games’ Dustborn. In the wake of Dustborn failing to surpass peak concurrent players of 100 and developer Red Thread Games getting lampooned for its push of woke […]

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