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Tech giant Microsoft has announced a long-term partnership with woke advocacy group GLAAD, aiming to increase the representation of LGBT characters in its first-party Xbox games.

John Carmack, co-creator of the pioneering video game Doom and former CTO of Oculus VR, has said he is “not a culture warrior,” after leftist journalists blasted him for agreeing to speak at BasedCon, a sci-fi and video games conference that rejects woke ideology.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation has asked gaming giants Sony, Microsoft, and Valve to ban the video game Atomic Heart. The ministry is also imploring gamers to avoid the game, which it claims portrays Soviet imagery and propaganda.

A woke video game company recently fired a female employee after a Twitter campaign started by a transgender activist who accused her of being “transphobic.” One of the woman’s “transphobic” actions was following Libs of TikTok and other conservative accounts on social media.

A ten-year-old Milwaukee boy may be charged as an adult after he allegedly shot his mother in the face after she refused to purchase a VR set for him.

A party hosted by the EU Foreign Aid department on its own proprietary “metaverse” that cost around ~$400,000 to build reportedly flopped on Tuesday, with almost no one attending.

A Florida woman was charged with first-degree murder after she admitted to killing her younger sister for flirting with her boyfriend while playing an online video game.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which recently said that questioning official narratives on matters like coronavirus policies constitutes a terrorist threat, has awarded nearly $700,000 to left-wing researchers to study radicalization in video games, with a focus on “white supremacy.”

The European Union has launched its own propaganda board game centring on the benevolent rule of the bloc’s Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen.

Merchandise appearing to depict a fictional character described as being “around ten years old” with her underwear exposed was publicly put on sale at the “world’s biggest” gaming convention last week.

The UK government has concluded that it will not regulate video game mechanics that have been linked to “problem gambling” by multiple studies, saying that it wants video game companies to self-regulate instead.

A fan of the popular military video game War Thunder reportedly leaked classified Chinese tank schematics in an effort to win an online argument.

China on Monday issued its first new video game licenses in nine months, seemingly backing away from a harsh crackdown on the gaming industry.

EA is removing all Russia-linked teams from its wildly popular FIFA and NHL video game franchises.

Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard, the largest video games company in Europe and North America that launched hit titles like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and Overwatch, in a deal that values the embattled game developer at $68.7 billion.

In a recent article, the New York Times describes how football coach and sportscaster John Madden became the face of a billion-dollar gaming franchise.

The government of South Korea has told Google and Apple it must remove “play to earn” video games, a rapidly expanding genre driven by the booming crypto economy, from their app stores.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is not backing down amid fierce backlash from legacy media, after he blasted the “left-wing attack on manhood” and urged men to embrace and assume the responsibilities of their gender role in a series of recent remarks.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday reported three people were arrested for organizing a video game viewing party with over 2,000 attendees in the city of Wuhan, in the midst of China’s worst coronavirus outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic.

China’s state-run gaming association recently issued new guidelines banning video games that depict homosexual relationships, “effeminate males,” and characters that with no “clear gender,” the Associated Press (AP) reported Saturday.

According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, tech giant Apple is making major moves in the video game space despite not actively developing any games itself. The Silicon Valley giant earned more profits from games in 2019 than Microsoft’s XBox, Sony’s Playstation, Nintendo, and Activision Blizzard all combined.

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday that Chinese regulators will not approve any new online games for at least a month, following a month in which approval has been granted very slowly. The news caused gaming industry stocks to slide in markets around the world, as investors feared losing access to the immense Chinese market.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s National Press and Publication Administration issued an edict on Monday banning Chinese citizens aged 18 years and younger from playing online video games for more than three hours per week.

Sweden has decided to grant exemptions to the county’s Wuhan coronavirus travel ban for eSports “athletes” entering the country from outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).

A sealed copy of the video game The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) has sold for nearly $900,000 at Heritage Auctions.

Scott Cawthon, creator of the video game franchise Five Nights at Freddy’s, responded to a wave of outrage over the weekend — after fans discovered he has donated to Republican candidates, including former President Donald Trump — stating, “I’m a Republican, Christian, and pro-life — if I get cancelled, then I get cancelled.”

Silicon Valley giant Intel has announced that it will be releasing an AI program named Bleep that is capable of censoring “offensive” and racist speech from gaming audio. Intel claims that the AI tool will allow users to detect and remove toxic speech from their voice chat.”

Illinois State Rep. Marcus Evans Jr. is attempting to fight a surge in Chicago carjackings by pushing to ban the sales of the Grand Theft Auto video game.

A recent report revealed that the video game industry has overtaken the sports and movie industries combined, in 2020, due to the Chinese coronavirus.

Although corporate media who praise Wikipedia as a counter to “fake news” have simultaneously criticized it for perceived gaps in coverage on gender and race, the site also shows a gap in its coverage of Christmas, the most widely-celebrated holiday on Earth other than New Year’s Day. In contrast to the generally under-developed nature of the site’s Christmas content, articles covering video games and the show South Park are generally more developed.

Devotion, a horror videogame created by Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games which was blacklisted and banned soon after its release in February 2019 because it ostensibly contained an insult to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, was again yanked from digital store shelves before anyone had a chance to buy it.

A six-year-old might have put himself on Santa’s naughty list this holiday season after he racked up $16,000 in video game charges on his mother’s credit card.

In a recent article, MarketWatch questions whether video games could actually be Google and Apple’s weakness in antitrust cases. One venture capitalist commented, “These closed gardens feel like extortion. You need to pay to survive. It harkens to Microsoft and the Department of Justice investigation, and AT&T before that. With Apple and Google, it comes down to what is the ‘right’ take for the platforms? Thirty percent? 10%?”

Activision Blizzard is feeling the heat of backlash for promoting Black Lives Matter after banning an e-sports champion for making comments in favor of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

Bomb detection units in Iraq uncovered a plot by the Islamic State to detonate bombs against Yazidi people hidden in video game controllers, a film highlighted by the UK Telegraph on Monday found.

Amazon-owned live-streaming site Twitch has reportedly appointed a transgender “deer-girl” with links to the ADL to its “Safety Advisory Council.” The streamer, known as “FerociouslySteph” on the site, argues that voice chat in video games is a tool of oppression and that “a lot of you gamers are actually white supremacists.”