Super Podcast Action Committee - Episode 73
On this week's show, hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight talk about last week's poll about the importance of Metacritic, critics not playing Beyond: Two Souls all the way to the end before writing...
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Protest Game Puts Russian President Vladimir Putin in Gay-Friendly Sochi...
Twenty-three-year-old Robin Ras, a Dutch game developer and owner of GamesOnly.com, has found a unique way of protesting Russian President Vladimir Putin's anti-gay policies. With the Winter Olympics...
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Report: Russia Proposing Stricter Age Restrictions for Video Games and Web Sites
The Voice of Russia reports that Russia may adopt stricter age restrictions for videogames and websites soon. One of the biggest online companies in the region, Mail.Ru, has already begun labeling its...
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The Sims 4 Rated 'Adults-Only' In Russia Because of Same-Sex Relationships
Russia's ratings agency that handles video games has given The Sims 4 an 18+ age rating due to the inclusion of same-sex relationships. The game violates a law that protects children from "information...
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Russian Hacking Group Claims Responsibility for CNET Security Breach
A Russian hacking group claimed responsibility for a recent attack on technology news site CNET. The group claimed that it stole usernames, encrypted passwords and emails for more than one million...
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Despite some controversy associated with Areal, a spiritual successor of sorts to the STALKER series, the Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign from West Games is a success, raising $64,291 with three...
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Russian Documentary Mistakes 'Team Fortress 2' Fan Art With WWI-Era Western...
A poster created by a DeviantArt artist inspired by Team Fortress 2 has been mistaken for a propaganda poster created by the United States government during WWI in a Russian documentary about Western...
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Cybersecurity Firm Says Russian Hackers May Have Been Involved in Sony...
A new report on Computer Business Review suggests that it might have been hackers from Russia - and not anyone associated with the North Korean government - who hacked Sony Pictures.According to...
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Report: Gamers in Crimea lose access to Blizzard games due to U.S. sanctions
Russia's invasion and annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 was considered an illegal act by the international community, and was the beginning of an ongoing testy relationship with the United...
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'War Thunder' producer takes YouTube channel hostage with DMCA takedowns
Polygon weaves a fascinating (but true) tale about Gaijin Entertainment and a rogue gameplay producer at the company who used multiple DMCA take-downs to hold the channel of Russia's most popular...
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