'G/O Media’s management is once again punishing workers for its own bad decisions'

80 out of 120 workers trying to unionize reportedly quit due to Grindr’s RTO mandate.

Review aggregation site Metacritic has spoken out in response to the ongoing review bombing of Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

The new policy follows weeks of back-and-forth complaints about Islamophobia and antisemitism on the platform.

And - of course - LGBT+ rights are now a "sensitive topic".

Anime Feminist also had the remarkable opportunity to interview Yukimura about Vinland Saga, writing female characters, portraying slavery and the role of Buddhist Philosophy in his work. Our interview with him, which was one of the great honors of my time in anime journalism, is below.

And because letting “random people steer a company Twitch Plays Pokémon-style” instead of venture capitalists is “fucking funny”

If anyone encounters a paywall: Archived version here

The network has aired at least 42 segments mentioning the topic in the last two weeks

"It doesn't do anything except make the staff lose motivation."

It’s official: Concord is never coming back

The recent Pokemon hack has provided tons of information about the series

Vtuber models are not cheap and the wait times can be months long

AI-powered search engines are surfacing deeply racist, debunked research.

Google-funded Character.AI added guardrails, but grieving mom wants a recall.

WEBTOON Entertainment's labor union is requesting fair compensation after its CEO was awarded an eye-popping $30 million in cash and stock options.

Streaming culture incentivizes this kind of hateful rhetoric.

Sponsored streams have had three distinct phases, or eras, since 2014.

Archived version

1814's Treaty of Paris is having some long-winded repercussions

Sony's Concord might be the biggest entertainment failure of all time, so why wasn't it news?

When the Supreme Court decided against Grokster, it changed the internet forever.

"We will not pay for our bosses' mistakes"

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/18884071

Vice shuttered the site in 2023

The former Persona team’s new RPG is rooted in the real world but unbounded by reality

Frostpunk 2, 11 Bit Studios' magnum opus, is proof that video games are at their most interesting when they engage with politics and ideology head on.