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Fortnite Players Throw Tomatoes at CNN Hosted ‘We Are the People’ In-Game Townhall Discussing Racism

July 8, 2020

Fortnite players recently rejected a recent discussion on ‘systemic racism,’ hosted in-game by CNN political commentator Van Jones. Many players either largely ignored the event or took to actively throwing ...

Epic Games Removes Police Cars from Fortnite Amidst Ongoing US Protests Against Police Brutality

Spencer Baculi

June 22, 2020

Video Games

Epic Games has quietly removed police car imagery from their massively popular video game Fortnite as protests against police brutality continue across the United States in the wake of the death of George Floyd...

Chinese Company Tencent Expands Reach In Western Entertainment Markets, Partners with Disney

Drew Taylor

October 18, 2019

Video Game Culture, Video Games

In the wake of Blizzardgate, a lot of gaming consumers are wondering just where their money is going. It's no secret that China has a heavy stake in the United States entertainment market. Chinese Companies...

Fortnite Chapter 2 Arrives With A New Map, New Ways to Level Up, and Fishing!

Drew Taylor

October 17, 2019

Video Games

Kudos to Epic Games. Fortnite's season 10 ending event was unprecedented. Players were surprised late Sunday, when literally everything was sucked into a black hole. Related: Fortnite Season 10 Ends With ...

Fortnite Season 10 Ends With Black Hole – Game Now Unplayable

Drew Taylor

October 14, 2019

Video Games

No one quite knows what happened to Fortnite. Season 10 ended Sunday. Literally. An explosive cosmic event happened in-game, and suddenly the game is unplayable. Normally, an event ending rolled into the ...

Canadian Parents File Lawsuit Against Epic Games, Claims Fortnite Made “to be as Addictive as Possible”

Spencer Baculi

October 9, 2019

Video Games

A Montreal-based law-firm has begun the process of filing a class-action lawsuit against video game publisher Epic Games on behalf of a group of Canadian parents who believe that playing Fortnite has an addicti...

Ys Net Will Not Provide Kickstarter Backers With Complementary Shenmue III Season Pass or Pre-Order Content

Spencer Baculi

July 11, 2019

Video Games

In the latest of a series of questioning decisions regarding the release of the long-anticipated Shenmue III, developers Ys Net have confirmed that backers of the game’s Kickstarter campaign must separately pur...

Prince Harry Calls For A Ban Of Fortnite Due to Youth “Addiction”

Spencer Baculi

April 7, 2019

Celebrity, Censorship, Video Games

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, spoke critically of the influence of popular online multiplayer game, Fortnite, is having on younger members of society. On April 2nd, Prince Harry spoke at a YMCA event in west...

Epic Games Pulls Fortnite Ads From YouTube Following Platform’s Pedophilia Controversy

Spencer Baculi

February 22, 2019

Video Games

YouTube found itself at the center of yet another controversy when a user by the name of Matt Watson, aka MattsWhatItIs, uploaded a disturbing video to his YouTube account titled “YouTube is Facilitating the Se...

Fans React After Fortnite Gets Sued By Backpack Kid over Floss Dance

Jorge Arenas

December 18, 2018

Video Games

Following the lawsuit by Alfonso Ribeiro against Fortnite and Epic Games over the use of his "Carlton Dance," the Backpack Kid who made popular the Floss Dance is now suing Fortnite and Epic Games as well. As y...

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