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Kotaku Spreads Handful of Tweets In Attempt to Spark ‘White Washing’ Controversy Around Bea’s Latest Pokemon: Twilight Wings Appearance

February 24, 2020

Seizing on a small sample size of tweets supplied by a Japanese website, video game news outlet Kotaku published an article highlighting the few allegations of the white washing of Gym Leader Bea in her latest ...

Journalist Sophia Narwitz Blows The Lid Off The “Clique” Anti-Conservative Gatekeepers In Games Journalism

Jorge Arenas

February 21, 2020

Video Games

The subject of ethics within the games journalist industry has been a hot topic over the years. Back in 2014, then Breitbart London writer Milo Yiannopoulos exposed a private Google Groups mailing list calle...

Kotaku Criticizes Journey to the Savage Planet for Use of ‘Savage’ in Title: “The Word Has a Long History Being Used to Justify Violent Behavior by Colonizers”

Spencer Baculi

January 31, 2020

Video Games

A recent article published by Kotaku has leveled criticism at the game Journey to the Savage Planet due to the use of the word ‘savage’ in the title, taking offense due to historical instances of the word being...

Kotaku News Editor Jason Schreier Attacks World of Warcraft Vanilla Team Lead Mark Kern

Jorge Arenas

November 4, 2019

Video Games

Kotaku's News Editor Jason Schreier attacked World of Warcraft vanilla team lead Mark Kern describing him as "an alt-right troll." Schreier's attack comes after Kern commented on an alleged 4Chan leak. Ke...

Kotaku Accused of Charging $1,500 “For the Opportunity to Quote Their Review” of I Love You! Colonel Sanders

Spencer Baculi

October 6, 2019

Video Games

The popular gaming news outlet Kotaku has been accused of charging a developer $1,500 to license quotes from their negative review of a game for limited marketing purposes. The accusation against Kotaku was ...

Kotaku Includes Graphic Images of Underage Fictional Characters Including Pokemon’s Misty in Article About “Video Game Porn”

Spencer Baculi

September 25, 2019

Video Games

Kotaku, normally a mainstream outlet for video game news, recently published a bizarre article which detailed the author’s experience watching “a bunch of video game porn” and included graphic images of underag...

Kotaku Cites Small Sampling of Tweets as Proof of Harassment of Wolfenstein: Youngblood Designer

Spencer Baculi

July 31, 2019

Video Games

A recent Kotaku article claiming that a designer on Wolfenstein: Youngblood faced harassment appears to be running a false narrative based on two negative tweets from a single user. In the article, Wolfenste...

Mordhau Devs Spark Outrage For Refusing to Police Players “Too Tightly,” Discussing Content Toggles For Ethnicity and Gender

Spencer Baculi

July 5, 2019

Video Games

Triternion, the devs behind the massively popular medieval combat game Mordhau, have found themselves in the crosshairs due to their stance that players should be responsible for chat filtering and for discussi...

Kotaku Criticizes Mortal Kombat 11 for Casting Ronda Rousey as Sonya Blade

Kotaku Targets Mortal Kombat 11 for Casting Ronda Rousey as Sonya Blade

Spencer Baculi

May 2, 2019

Celebrity, Video Game Culture, Video Games

After starring as series main stay Sonya Blade in the recently released Mortal Kombat 11, the decision to cast Ronda Rousey has come under fire by the video game news site Kotaku due to certain controversial co...

Kotaku Reporter Doubles Down on False Overwatch Controversy Article

Spencer Baculi

January 8, 2019

Video Game Culture, Video Games

Last week, the Overwatch community found itself embroiled in a controversy surrounding both the apparent resignation of a professional female Overwatch player, Ellie, due to rampant harassment and the subsequen...

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