Mark Kern, CEO & Designer. Former Team Lead for OG World of Warcraft. Producer, Diablo 2, Starcraft. Em-8ER lead, Firefall creator. Chrono Trigger is best game.
We are not the grifters.
Journalists are, and they have been for many years.
You can BUY articles, you can BUY guaranteed social media impressions. $125,000 gets you on their game awards show. And I broke the story with the RECEIPTS.
NONE of this is disclosed. That positive
Game journalists are the ultimate grifters.
Check out
@gaymingmag
's recent promotional email. This mirrors the offers I've seen from many smaller outlets as a game publisher.
And the ones that caught my eye the most:
- Paid social media boost of your social ad with
So
@IGN
calls Stellar Blade protagonist a sexualized “doll” and says the creator “has never seen a living woman.”
The not real “doll”:
The creator’s wife and team artist:
A delivery driver for Amazon misheard a automated doorbell for “racism” and reported it.
Nobody was home.
Amazon turned off all the lights, shut the entire smart home down before it even started it’s investigation.
Law enforcement via corporation with no due process.
Look, what happened with Japan and Assassin's Creed Shadows was horrible.
Real history was revised and rewritten to FIT the narrative of a VIDEOGAME.
When they tried to support it with "experts" the leading expert turned out to be FAKE.
This is not just about a videogame
The Assassin's Creed Shadows issues with Yasuke and the discredited "historian" Thomas Lockley have exploded into a potential diplomatic incident.
Letters are being sent with questions to the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Ministry of
We now know Concord cost 400 million to develop.
Everyone internal expected it to launch a massive billion dollar franchise.
Nobody was allowed to give negative feedback.
This is how far AAA has gone wrong.
Something big happened yesterday and most people missed it. Every theory we had about the uglification of women in AAA gaming turned out to be true.
Look at what happened to Jean Grey from
@insomniacgames
Marvel's Wolverine from these leaked early screenshots of the first,
Microsoft is about to learn an Ubisoft lesson. These are the people in charge of Halo now.
It's cooked. Dead. Beyond recovery. Pin this tweet. Halo is GONE.
Everyone is talking about ScreenRant's slanted review of Wukong.
Here's what happened with the infamous
@screenrant
review of Black Myth: Wukong after they gave it a 6/10 for not being DIVERSE ENOUGH.
A thread 🧵
Indie souls-like Black Myth: Wukong has seen widespread acclaim since its reveal, but the studio behind it, Game Science, has long been plagued with accusations of sexism that reflect wider issues in the Chinese games industry. Our report:
Unbelievable. Ubisoft race swapped for Yasuke.
Insiders have reported to
@EndymionYT
that Assassin's Creed Shadows originally had a feature complete Japanese male protagonist.
He was race swapped for Yasuke because
@Ubisoft
felt like they would take advantage of BLM and George
Streamer
@xjhannaa
, who called out "toxic men" in Call of Duty, wants to force her future son to be trans or gay:
"If we have a son...we better start indoctrinating him day 1. We either have to make him trans or make him gay."
"We are not having a c*sgender straight son"
Ya, I
So let me get this straight. "Ashually Historical Figure, Yasuke" in Assassin's Creed Shadows:
- Battles to rap music
- Walks through villages beating asians up
- Uses excessive non-honorable violence (crushing heads of defeated enemies)
- Makes all villagers bow to him
Kyle Glass of Tenacious D apologizes.
I can tell you what is happening here, but most aren't ready to hear it.
The majority of people don't actually have their own opinions (or rather, convictions). They only express what is deemed popular or acceptable according to the overton
Yo,
@IGN
, you cheating?
IGN appears to manipulate user votes for Game of The Year to erase Black Myth Wukong’s substantial lead.
Look at the time stamps and vote counts.
Wukong drops from 90% to 74% in the span of an hour. They did this at 5am when most are asleep.
But look
So let me get this straight
@Ubisoft
.
You charged people $130 dollars for 3 day early access.
And then, you wiped all their progress with your Day 1 patch?
Nice Outlaw move, Star Wars game.
Scumbags hunted down and found my wife’s retired twitter account. They are busy posting family photos from it, including my kids, and one from my birthday where I was at a Japanese restaurant.
She is pretty upset and just wants to be left alone.
Stop it. Leave my family alone.
Helldivers fans -- we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update. The May 6 update, which would have required Steam and PlayStation Network account linking for new players and for current players beginning May 30, will not be moving forward.
We’re still
DnD was always inclusive. It wasn’t popular at school and could get you bullied if you played.
No one was turned away, and we had diverse tables even when it was made by “white dudes.”
Now that it’s popular, these same white dudes are being excluded and vilified by Wizards.
‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Senior Game Designer Disavows How Series Was Made By “White Dudes”, Boasts That Much Of Original Material “Would Never Pass Our Inclusivity Reviews Today”
Not only does Dragon Age Veilguard feature “top surgery scars” but also “Vitiligo” and “cellulite.”
These are obvious fetish self inserts being foisted on gamers.
Tumblr has spilled into AAA games.
"I'm Asian, and Ubisoft decided to erase me and replace me in a game about my own country."
Isn't that what they would say if they made Assassin's Creed Shadows a white dude?
Why are they okay with it when they picked a black dude?
So
@Ubisoft
apparently CHANGED Assassin's Creed Shadows, throwing away the original story and instead running with Yauke, an obscure black retainer of Nobunaga, as front and center.
An Ubisoft writer who worked on the game says the original story was completely different.
Former Sweet Baby Inc. dev claims it was all misinformation. Claims she doesn't hate white people.
Immediately get's called out by ex-friend and co-dev on her Validate game.
Sweet Baby Inc. is full of racists. Nobody in MSM reports this.
This is getting insane.
Godot isn't just blocking devs on Twitter, they are blocking them on GitHub, preventing them for getting engine updates.
Open Source Engine? More like CLOSED TO OWN THE CHUDS.
Western AAA Game Defendurrs:
"You see, scanning women is very technical. It's not on purpose. You just aren't smart enough to understand game dev."
Meanwhile, in Stellar Blade:
Godot community manager creates HUGE crisis for open source game engine.
What started off as virtue signaling with multiple rainbow flags and naming the engine Wokot has turned into a media disaster and the CEO desperately trying to calm devs.
The CM went on a huge blocking
🚨BREAKING: Activision and Blizzard rebrands DEI as companies flee the label and downplay DE&I and ESG.
The terms are now deemed toxic to their political agenda, but nothing has changed. They are just trying to hide it now.
I've confirmed this with multiple sources inside
Top 3 things you should never do if you want your AAA to be a success according to history.
1. Hire a militant woke activist who hates half your audience as your protagonist.
2. Have big execs tell gamers “if you don’t like it, don’t buy it.”
3. Pre-emptively block everyone
17,000 game industry jobs tragically lost. AAA is a bloodbath.
Think how many they could have saved if publishers just gave gamers what they wanted.
Instead they trashed characters we loved, forced DEI down our throats, told us we were evil, gave us stale gameplay with bugs…
UPDATE: They DELETED it. 🤣
@Wikipedia
editors have already ALTERED Yasuke's entry. They did it just moments after I tweeted it.
Covering up for Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed Shadows.
They did this with Warhammer and they are now doing it to real history.
Found it. This is the guide that was lauded in 2016 by a DC Comics artist.
The literal blueprint every AAA game and comic now uses to defeminize characters.
Patient Zero of woke fem design.
This isn't a conspiracy theory. It's what they wanted to push. They succeeded, but
Alyssa just got put in her place.
Tomas Mahler is the director of both Ori games.
He did absolutely nothing wrong. He just asked a woman if she worked on his game as she claimed, because he did not know her.
For this "crime" of questioning her lived experience, he was attacked
This aged poorly. Ubisoft is nearly dead.
Again this photo proves my point. Companies that go out of their way to have "all women" photos are just doing it for virtue points.
Illegal hiring quotas don't make you a better studio. They just put meritocracy as the last priority,
CONCORD SHUT DOWN!
On my last stream, I gave Concord 6 months before it was shut down.
It happened much much faster than that.
AAA Publishers are bleeding money and cutting costs aggressively. This is why you need to PUSH on Ubisoft this year.
2 Years to stop the spread. Play
Concord is going offline beginning September 6th
"However, while many qualities of the experience resonated with players, we also recognize that other aspects of the game and our initial launch didn’t land the way we’d intended. Therefore, at this time,
Every violence loving leftist dropped their mask today, before deleting their tweets. But we all saw it.
It's what they really think, what we've been saying all this time. The woke want you dead.
I can tell you that from all of my Japanese sources, Ubisoft has kicked the hornet’s nest.
Celebrities are speaking out about Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
Thomas Lockley is being scrutinized.
This isn’t about “grifters” complaining about PoC in games. It’s close to a diplomatic
AC Shadows is now a national issue in Japan. Nippon Journal is exposing Thomas Lockley’s lies, including his false claim about Yasuke being a samurai. Historians, newspapers, and the Diet are uniting against this distortion of history. It may soon become a government matter 🤯
If Runescape patching an ancient game to have pronouns and bodytypes is such a big "nothing" then why do it at all?
Oh, it's optional?
Really...try making a mod on Nexus Mods that removes pronouns and see just how "optional" this trend is.
The Godot Foundation is a piece of shit.
The official statement confirms it.
- Zero accountability for the insane behavior of their mods.
- Blames innocent devs who must proactively appeal their false bans
- Gaslights the community. (the vast majority of blocks were not
I just got Doxed. My family has been doxed.
Second Wind and former EIC of Escapist, Nick Calandra
@jnickjcal
, has weaponized his Discord server and is encouraging his thousands of patreon supporters to dox me.
They did.
And unlike certain other journalists who don't post
Gamers didn’t make a big deal about Elden Ring’s UI UX.
Western devs complaining about it as a way to attack the game’s success did that all on their own.
I'm sorry, but there is no saving Godot. It has been hijacked by activists and the founder is a brilliant geek who does not want to cause waves and is too meek to take action.
This is how geek hobbies were taken over and it's happening again.
Fork Godot.
I love it when they reveal that “yes, it’s true, we ARE forcing DEI crap into games OR ELSE YOU WILL NEVER WORK HERE AGAIN!”
This is exactly what we are talking about, Richie. Thanks for taking the mask off and confirming everything.
Palworld exploded on the scene in February.
Patent about poke balls filed in May.
Patent granted in August.
Nintendo sues Palworld the following month.
Folks, this is Nintendo using lawfare to try to kill an indie studio that embarrassed them by creating a better Pokémon
Sweet Baby Inc. gets exposed for harassing and trying to cancel a gamer, gets banned, goes private, runs to journalists to try to cover up DEI in gaming...
Ends up being tweeted about by Elon Musk.
They mega-Streisanded.
Skullgirls fired their original devs, then promptly started deleting content from the art book you paid for.
An ART BOOK.
All your digital media will be censored and taken away from you at a whim.
This is profoundly anti-consumer and should be fought at ever turn. A digital
It's true what they say. Gaming was hijacked by non-gamers once the money got good.
AAA is filled with CEOs who have no idea what gamers really want but who are really good at monetization ...in the short term.
Gamergate 2 just got real. Too real.
The BBC are now calling for a “final purge” if you oppose Sweet Baby Inc.
The mask is off. This is the cultural revolution. It’s do or die.
We DID It! YOU did it!
#FreeStellarBlade
celebrates as Shift Up and
@StellarBlade
uncensor outfits!
Thank you everyone who participated in the 8 step plan and the petition! Thank you
@jamm3rd
for listening to gamers.
Please sign the petition, which will now be sent as a GIFT to
Helldivers Moderator purple squidgeon falsely proclaims that I have "sexually assaulted" many people.
Falsely claims I sent people to attack their CM's and their families.
Currently banning anyone who defends me or even likes a comment that defends me from this slander.
Reddit's r/assassinscreed moderator says that, no matter what Ubisoft says, Yasuke as samurai is a fact and anyone saying otherwise would be banned.
By this logic,
@Ubisoft
itself would banned for posting their apology there, as they themselves admit the matter is under debate!
Dustborn lets you unlock Cancel Culture as a weapon.
They explain it well here. Cancel Culture is not boycotting or criticizing.
The goal of cancel culture is to isolate you, cut you off from your friends, employment and allies by attacking so hard that nobody wants to take
Black Myth: Wukong 7 Million Dollar Shakedown by SBI?
@BlackMythGame
Developer, Game Science, claims companies like Sweet Baby Inc. are asking the studio for $7 Million in "guidance" fees to fix their game and studio image.
Game Science was slammed by
@IGN
for it's founder's
>Chinese media: 'Black Myth: Wukong' refused to be extorted $7 million by SweetBaby.
English:
The reason why the team behind "Black Myth: Wukong" has been subjected to persistent sexist attacks and slander since their first promotional video is because they have consistently
"It's an INCEL VICTORY"
Voting with wallets work. Worked for Target, Tractor Supply, John Deere, Harley Davidson, and now Ubisoft
@Ubisoft
.
Keep voting with your wallets! We're winning.
The highest levels of salt and rage are occurring right now.
It’s because their two poster child mega-experiments failed.
Acolyte and Concord.
Not to mention everything else they lost this year.
This is why they have become a seething mob bent on destruction.
After a
It turns out that
@IGN
has been hammering the slander on Game Science studios for months.
Every single article they write on Black Myth: Wukong, they bring up the hit piece article they wrote about the game studio.
Every single one, this isn’t journalism, it’s a hit job.
Ubisoft's Monetization Director.
Laments you won't buy because he does not make games that "cater to you or please you."
Simultaneously trying to cancel fellow devs and silence them for being "non-decent human being(s)" if they disagree, while gaslighting and blaming gamers for
Ubisoft
- Tries to be woke
- Picks Yasuke, a black man who was treated like a novelty item in a racist way by Nobunaga and never did anything of note except surrender.
- Names the game Assassins Creed Shadows, invoking racist overtones.
Who's the racist?
Notice how the narrative has shifted?
From: “Grummz is a nobody who is completely irrelevant.”
To…
“Grummz is destroying real journalism and must be stopped!”
Unhinged and objectively racist rant article by
@Alyssa_merc
throws in buzzwords like "Trump," "Right wing," "Hate" and even throwing in "BLM" and "MeToo" while completely misrepresenting the issues, facts and TRUE cultural appropriation by Ubisoft.
Alyssa Mercante is going
CD Projekt bans men from their new scholarship program.
I’m all for scholarships for women in games, so long as we can have scholarships just for men in games.
Bring back men’s clubs, societies and private associations.
We have no agenda. We want the widest possible audience.
This Ubisoft statement sounds good until you realize Disney said the same thing in response to their movies being accused of a woke agenda.
What happened? Nothing. Disney carried on until they had several more mega flops.
It’s so funny how wokies and cancel pigs are demanding we get mad at Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom.
Most gamers are super excited to play.
It’s as if the “gamers hate women” narrative was a lie all along.
Oh, also, we’re getting another woman lead in Metroid, and we love that too.
@Nerdrotics
The obsession with making the bad guys just “misunderstood” is killing the genre.
Let evil be a simple thing, and heroics be a simple and just reaction.
Dragon Age GAME DIRECTOR deletes flags and BLM from bio.
As soon as the Dragon Age trailer backlash hit, her public values suddenly vanished.
If DEI and SBI values are great and don't hurt sales, why she hiding them? Wouldn't they just boost sales to the modern audience?
We
Woke devs and press go after Saber Interactive CEO for his alleged Space Marine 2 comments.
They want him cancelled for making a game free from pandering narratives.
They are literally witch hunting him now, trying to find out if he said what he said.
If they keep this up,
Indie game
@SoulashGame
is being review bombed on steam because the creator doesn’t want to change the game to support same sex relations.
The creator,
@ArturSmiarowski
, is being called phobic and other not so nice things because he doesn’t want to virtue signal in his game.
I
We didn’t elect these companies, nor do we have a say in the “laws” they arbitrarily pen.
But we handed them control over our lives.
We are trading freedom for shiny beads and trinkets.