ThisGenGaming weighs up the biggest gaming controversies of 2016 so far in the industry.
"Nordic Game has revealed the winners of this year’s Nordic Game Awards, which took place on Thursday, May 23, during NG24 Spring and streamed live from Slagthuset in Malmö, Sweden." - Nordic Game.
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"Three days filled with specialist lectures delivered by almost 200 speakers, three thematic summits, and over 2600 guests from almost every corner of the world - the capital of Małopolska became the capital of the games industry for a few days.
Organized by the Krakow Technology Park, the Digital Dragons Conference once again showed that Poland is attracting more and more attention from the world's biggest industry tycoons for a reason." - Digital Dragons.
Honestly, "controversy" like the term "epic" has been overused on many events not worthy of it's meaning. The Uncharted 4 review for example didn't need any limelight due to the fact that anyone who plays games regularly isn't going to read the Washington Post for gaming advice or shouldn't take it seriously. It's like getting angry of a bad car review in a cook book.
Next, the Overwatch issue about Tracer is a thing that puzzles me to this day.
-puts on tinfoil hat-
I still think the user who complained about the pose was either a plant or played like one to win even more attention to Overwatch before launch. I think it's strange that Blizzard took so much effort to change the pose after ONE person had an issue with it yet they didn't even respond to Zed's complaints of Symettra's Devi skin after launch. Maybe I am looking too hard into it and maybe Blizzard realized after launch that the game isn't going to please everybody regardless of what they do.
-takes tin foil hat off-
The Polygon vs Doom issue however was completely worth it because it further shows that most of the biggest names in gaming reviews have little to no gaming knowledge and have no interest to learn. Gaming has managed to be the leading forms of entertainment money-wise which summoned tons of parasites to feed of it's success. The main reason is because it takes little to no effort to make crazy money unless you are a developer or publisher, (Anita still being a prime example of this.) and more light need to be shed to oust these people who are suddenly riding on gaming's coattails.
I am very surprised that No Man's Sky hasn't earned a spot in this lineup and please ease up on the "memes" next time, just showing fact supporting your claims will suffice.