Splash Damage
By Scrivonaut
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Episodes: 138
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Interested in video games, anime, and other geeky things and the culture of outrage surrounding them? In this podcast, husband-and-wife duo Scrivonaut and Norayla—and sometimes special guests—dive deep on controversies consuming the nerd sphere.
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Episode 138: Lord of the Fallen 2 Catching Heat for Making Attractive Characters
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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Episode 137: Revisiting Recent Releases Not Doing So Hot
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Episode 136: Nature is Healing—The Male Gaze is Back, According to CNN
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Episode 135: Game Devs Mock Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Episode 134: Faith in Elder Scrolls VI Drops Further as Bethesda Hires Dragon Age: The Veilguard Writer
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Episode 133: Activist Groups, Payment Processors, and the UK Government: The Entities Making a Recent Push for Video Game Censorship
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Episode 132: Wonderfilled Games Proudly Makes a Game that Imagines a Future with No White People
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Episode 131: Stellar Blade’s Success on PC Proves Game Journos as Out of Touch
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Episode 130: Assassin’s Creed Shadows Sales are Dismal
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Episode 129: The Wild Success of Indie Darling Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Should Mortify the Video Game Industry
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May 10, 2025 |
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Episode 128: Oblivion Remastered Has Been “Modern Audienced”
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Episode 127: Assassin’s Creed Shadows Isn’t as Successful as Ubisoft Wants You to Believe
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Episode 126: Borderlands 4 is already proving to be a disaster
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Episode 125: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is What Happens When Devs Take the Blue Pill
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Episode 124: Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Sales Bombed, and Assassin’s Creed Shadows is Next
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Episode 123: Watch Out: Witcher 4 Might Be Another Woke Disaster
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Episode 122: The Game Awards Shows the Sad State of Western Games
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Episode 121: Avowed’s Art Director Accused of Discriminating Against White Men
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Episode 120: IGN Backpedals on Dragon Age: The Veilguard Praise
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Episode 119: Surprising No One, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Woke Drek
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Episode 118: Will the Role of Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Yasuke be Diminished?
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Episode 117: Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Gonna Tank
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Episode 116: Concord and Other Recent Games Have Been Disasters—Will Devs Learn?
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Episode 115: Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster is Censored, Because Of Course
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Episode 114: Capcom Pushes for DEI with Goal of Getting More Women in Leadership
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Episode 113: Kotaku Australia is Dead
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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Episode 112: Kotaku Writer Compares the Difficulty of Her Life to Shadow of the Erdtree
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Episode 111: Assassin’s Creed Shadows Faces Backlash for Black Samurai
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May 25, 2024 |
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Episode 110: Farm Folks Dev Caves to the Perpetually Offended
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May 11, 2024 |
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Episode 109: Stellar Blade Devs Promise Game Won’t Be Censored, Then Censor It
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Episode 108: The New Tomb Raider Won’t be a Tomb Raider
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Episode 107: Dev Admits Blatant Racism as Sweet Baby Inc. Drama Continues
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Episode 106: Gamergate 2. 0? Sweet Baby Inc. is Ruining Video Games, and Gamers are Waking Up
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Episode 105: Tomb Raider Remasters Want You to Feel Bad for Playing Them
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Episode 104: Ubisoft Wants You to Own Nothing and Be Happy
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Episode 103: Final Fantasy Panelist Canceled for Simply Liking Tweets
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Episode 102: Spider-Man 2 is Super Woke—Except in the Middle East
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Episode 101: Wokies Delete Mods that Remove Starfield’s Pronouns, Baldur’s Gate 3’s Lore-Inaccurate Races
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Episode 100: Nerd Stuff is Awesome
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Episode 99: Ding Dong! The Witches Are Dead!
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Episode 98: Assassin’s Creed Take on Feudal Japan Will Feature a Female Samurai and Black Shinobi
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Episode 97: Final Fantasy XVI is Too White for Game Journalists
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Episode 96: Overwatch 2 Celebrates Everyone … Except Straight People
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Episode 95: Where All the Straight Female Characters At?
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May 20, 2023 |
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Episode 94: Kotaku Does a Racism Over Being Blacklisted
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May 06, 2023 |
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Episode 93: D&D Creators Think Half-Species (Mixed Races) Are “Inherently Racist”
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Episode 92: Kotaku Really Doesn’t Like Sexy Stuff, Except When They Do
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Episode 91: Retcons and Censorship: Western Entertainment Has Completely Stagnated
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Episode 90: The Harassment of Hogwarts Legacy Players is Out of Control
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Episode 89: Despite Leftists’ Efforts, Hogwarts Legacy is a Huge Success
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Episode 88: Wizards of the Coast is Killing D&D with a New Open Game License
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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Episode 87: Kotaku, PC Gamer Believe Every Game Must Include Black People
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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Episode 86: EA Apologizes Over Lack of Representation During Sims Presentation
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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Episode 85: CD Projekt Red is Doomed
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Episode 84: God of War’s David Jaffe is a Hypocrite
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Episode 83: D&D Uses White Savior Trope IRL to Save Black People from “Racist” Lore
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Episode 82: Spider-Man Mod Banned for Not Being “Inclusive”
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Episode 81: Ben Kuchera Goes on Unhinged Rant Against Polygon
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Episode 80: Rockstar is Killing GTA VI by Making It Woke
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Episode 79: Rippaverse Proves There’s a Huge Market for Non-Woke Media
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Episode 78: TheGamer.com, Ironically, Hates Gamers
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Episode 77: Kotaku Defends Amber Heard and Compares Her Plight to GamerGate
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Episode 76: Kotaku Has a Weird Definition of “Black”
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Episode 75: Kotaku Called Out by Developer for Turning Story into a Race Issue
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May 20, 2022 |
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Episode 74: Gaming Industry Freaking Out About Abortion
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May 13, 2022 |
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Episode 73: Kotaku Praises Game Developers for… Refusing to Leave Twitter?
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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Episode 72: Rockstar Caves to Pressure and Censors GTA V
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Episode 71: Game Rant Says Elden Ring Characters’ Suffering is “Gender Coded”
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Episode 70: VG247 Thinks Ghostwire: Tokyo is More “Authentic” Than Ghost of Tsushima
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Episode 69: Polygon is Proud Dungeons & Dragons’ Next Book is Written Entirely by Minorities
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Episode 68: Game Developers Call Lost Ark Female Costumes “Sexist”
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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Episode 67: The Verge Says Elden Ring Fails Black Players
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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Episode 66: Horizon Forbidden West is Not Racist
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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Episode 65: Journalists Claim Sifu is Racist Because It’s Developed by White People
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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Episode 64: Kotaku Defends Gamers for Once Instead of Calling Them “Toxic” and “Entitled”
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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Episode 63: G4’s Indiana Black Really Wants to Be a Victim
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Episode 62: Kotaku Claims Halo: Infinite Alienates Players by Tracking Scores
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Episode 61: Dungeons & Dragons Sterilized in Pursuit of “Inclusivity”
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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Episode 60: IGN Says PlayStation Pedophile Isn’t News, But Conservative Game Developers Existing Is?
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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Episode 59: Are the Best Years of Gaming Behind Us?
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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Episode 58: Games Media Label Call of Duty: Vanguard as Islamophobic
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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Episode 57: Unsatisfied with Just Canceling Five Nights at Freddy’s Dev, Kotaku Calls Him a “Weird Christian Dude”
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Episode 56: Battlefield 2042 Has a Nonbinary Character Because Why Not?
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Episode 55: Waypoint Thinks Itself Too Holy to Play Far Cry 6
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Episode 54: Games Should Not Be Retroactively Censored
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 53: Kotaku Thinks Skater XL is Too White
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Episode 52: Game Dev Loses Job for Being Pro-Life
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Episode 51: China is Oppressing Gamers Like It’s Literally 1984
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Episode 50: PC Culture Claims Another Victim with the Saints Row Reboot
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Episode 49: Geena Davis: The New Woke Scold Blaming Society’s Woes on Video Games
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Episode 48: All-White Game Studios Are an Abomination, Apparently
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Episode 47: Jason Schreier Knew About Blizzard Abuse for Years
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Episode 46: Games Journalist Insists on Reviewing Games on Easy Mode
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Episode 45: People Blast Kotaku for Reducing Gamer’s Achievement to Her Being Black
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Episode 44: Games Journalists Crucify Erik Kain for Reporting the News
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Episode 43: Games Journalists Celebrate Ousting a Republican Developer
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Episode 42: IGN Complains Battlefield 2042 Won’t Take a Political Stance
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Episode 41: Kotaku is Mad About Queer Representation
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Episode 40: Polygon Compares Mass Effect to Modern Policing Politics
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May 21, 2021 |
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Episode 39: Vice Wants “Ableist” Mass Effect Mission Censored
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May 14, 2021 |
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Episode 38: Apex Legends’ Diverse Character Roster Isn’t Woke Enough?
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May 07, 2021 |
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Episode 37: Kotaku Will Never Be Satisfied with Video Game Representation
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Episode 36: This Land is My Land is Not Racist
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Episode 35: Extra Credits Embarrasses Itself Again
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Episode 34: Journalists and Developers Want Joe Biden to Censor Six Days in Fallujah
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Episode 33: Games Journalists Have Already Written Off Six Days in Fallujah for Having the “Wrong” Politics
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Episode 32: Hogwarts Legacy Dev Calls Out Games Media
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Episode 31: Developer Leaves Hogwarts Legacy Project After Games Press Hit Pieces
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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Episode 30: Journalists Are Libeling a Developer for Not Being Woke Enough
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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Episode 29: Cancel Culture Claims Another Victim: Mandalorian Actress Gina Carano
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Episode 28: Gaming’s Got a Double Standard on Butts
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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Episode 27: GamerGate is Being Blamed for the GameStop Stock Situation
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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Episode 26: Games Journalists Exist Only to Antagonize Gamers
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Episode 25: Twitch’s New PogChamp Policy Backfires Immediately
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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Episode 24: The Capitol Riots Are Being Blamed on Gamers
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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Episode 23: CD Projekt Red is Having a Bad Week
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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Episode 22: Sophia Narwitz Talks Trans Representation in Cyberpunk 2077
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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Episode 21: Cyberpunk 2077 Has Already Triggered Polygon
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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Episode 20: Animal Crossing Community Lashes Out Over Player’s “Culturally Appropriated” Hairstyle
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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Episode 19: Do Politics Belong in Games?
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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Episode 18: Ubisoft Kowtows to Lone Offended Nobody Over Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
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Nov 14, 2020 |
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Episode 17: Super Seducer Creator Richard La Ruina Talks Sequel, Games Journalism Woes
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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Episode 16: Amnesia: Rebirth Triggers Kotaku in Every Way Possible
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Episode 15: Anita Sarkeesian Acting Pretty Sus
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Episode 14: Sony Turns to Big Brother Surveillance to Ensure Players Are “Safe”
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Episode 13: Kotaku Approves of Space Nazis’ Diversity in Star Wars: Squadrons
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Episode 12: When Are Sexy Video Game Characters Permissible?
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Episode 11: VG247 Libels Gamers as Alt-Right Over Halo 3: ODST Opinions
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Episode 10: Hogwarts Legacy Boycotted Over J. K. Rowling’s “Transphobia”
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Episode 9: Kotaku UK is Dead, So Let’s Discuss Their Worst Takes
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Episode 8: Reactions to Tell Me Why and The Last of Us Part II Prove Games Journalists Don't Want Trans Characters
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Episode 7: Blizzard's History of Censorship is Hypocritical
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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Episode 6: Communists Are Triggered by the New Call of Duty
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Episode 5: Grounded's Arachnophobia Mode is Not an Accessibility Issue
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Episode 4: Black-and-White Morality Dumbs Down Video Games
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Episode 3: Destroy All Humans Has Anal Probes and No-No Words
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Episode 2: Ghost of Tsushima and the Alt-Right?
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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Episode 1: Abby's Massive Guns and Other Qualms with The Last of Us Part II
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Jul 17, 2020 |