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Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath by seanw444 on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @09:21AM (#38177016)
Well, considering Kotaku is well-known for gaming articles filled with political activism and social justice, this is not surprising at all to me.
Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath by djur on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:16AM (#38177715)
My recollection was that Kotaku had an entire subsection of the site dedicated to posting pictures of attractive women doing cosplay. I don't remember much political activism -- do you have an example?
Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath by ajmurmann on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @11:15AM (#38178627)
They generally have a lot of quality content, but will slip in political commentary. IMO, this review is a decent example: https://kotaku.com/1850858948

The political commentary starts a paragraph after the summary box. Huge article and maybne two paragraphs fit the bill. The anti-capitalism stuff always makes me roll my eyes, but it's a game review, just ignore the parts you don't care about.

Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath by djur on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @11:24AM (#38178765)
The paragraph you describe criticizes some of the characterizations in the game and a lack of options for character customization, both of which seem to be safely within the ballpark for game reviewing. The reviewer clearly has an anticapitalist perspective, but I don't think that's sufficient for "political activism". Reviewers always have some kind of perspective that affects what they emphasize and de-emphasize.
Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath by ajmurmann on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @11:30AM (#38178876)
Yeah, I hope I made clear that I don't think it's a big deal. It's exaggerated by the gamergate crowd which might have truly kicked off our current culture war in it's current form.