He’s raised a whole lot of money for charity. For one thing, I know that in 2012 he resolved to stop making rape jokes. Since that profile came out, I’ve learned a little bit more about Kjellberg. For one thing, his supposed $4 million earnings only recently emerged from a glowing Wall Street Journal profile of PewDiePie ( the short video at the top of this article sums up the highlights), who I’m now going to start calling Felix Kjellberg, his real name, for the sake of giving my shift key a break. The anger at PewDiePie has really come to a head lately, enough that I now hear lots of people complain about him, not just jealous journalists. Why was PewDiePie causing so much ire? Who are “those people” who like PewDiePie so much? How was PewDiePie playing games while telling jokes any different from other, supposedly less annoying game-playing comedians like the Game Grumps, or even more “professional” channels like Team Liquid? Those guys “scream into the mic” as well, and their jokes can be repetitive and hit-or-miss, also. This seemed weird to me, especially coming from folks who didn’t have a problem with the concept of performative “Let’s Play” gaming videos.
“What do people see in him?” “He’s just screaming into a microphone! Anybody could do that!” “Well, the people who watch PewDiePie, those people aren’t our audience.” This PewDiePie guy had become a constant example of how games journalism was going down the drain.
I didn’t even know who PewDiePie was until about six months ago I kept hearing his name alongside a scowl of derision from all my games journalist friends’ mouths, especially the guys. In short, he independently produces comedy videos for a living. Have you heard of PewDiePie? He made $4 million dollars last year by playing videogames on YouTube, making funny faces, doing strange voices, and occasionally collaborating with other famous YouTube comedians or gamers in more of the same. How could these “boy’s club” sites go about catering to teenage girls and providing them with videogame news they actually care about, without being condescending? But then I remembered that Tumblr is awesome-and so are many other lady-dominated spaces, such as online fan-fiction communities, cosplay and fan-art communities on DeviantArt, and fandoms that surround popular gaming celebrities like PewDiePie. Her daughter gets all of her videogame news … from Tumblr. Her son visits all the big-name gaming websites for his news: Joystiq, IGN and so on.
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By clicking those links, you’ll also travel to Bulb Boy’s Portal-o-Money where you can throw cash at reward tiers to help support the game! You can also download a demo on PC, Mac, or Linux, and get excited for the release on all three of those platforms.I met a woman at a gaming convention recently who has a teenage son and a teenage daughter. If you’d like to learn a bit more about Bulb Boy on Kickstarter, you can click any of the blue words in this article. It’s an eerie mix of cute and creepy, and I think it’s the project to watch right now. All this is backed up by an adorable minimalist design that is surprisingly immersive in all gameplay I’ve seen. You have to best the evil that has overcome your dark house, relive your memories in search of your past, and combat the darkness with your shiny head.
Yes, they’re designed to scare us, but what if they were designed to help us be braver by facing our fears? Well, Bulb Boy flirts with that concept a bit, and aside from a painfully idiotic blurb from Pewdiepie, this Kickstarter project shines as bright as the Bulb Boy himself.īulb Boy, from the ambitiously named Bulb Boy Team, is a point-and-click survival horror adventure where your only light in the darkness, and the only defense you have, is your tasty noggin. When the darkness is more than an absence of light, it lets people who’re afraid of the dark literally face and fight their own fears, and I think that’s an important step that horror games should be taking. As someone who has managed to stay consistently afraid of the dark since my childhood, I’m often really grabbed by the idea of darkness being the enemy or some sort of force.
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