That’s Deep Silver, THQ, Aspyr, Gearbox, Coffee Stain, Saber Interactive, Perfect World, Crystal Dynamics, the studios formerly known as Eidos-Montréal and Square Enix Montreal, and many more smaller publishers and studios. EA is also off the table – in February 2021 the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia acquired 7.4 million shares of EA, valued at $1.1 billion and then in June 2022 they splashed out $1.05 billion for an 8.1% stake in the Embracer Group.
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That’s a big chunk of the gaming world no longer available to a guilt free gamer, including three of the big four publishers: Activision, Take-Two, and Ubisoft. What about GOG? Well, they removed a game that including content critical of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party seemingly after pressure from the Chinese government. While Epic promoted a homophobic map creator during their Pride month celebrations, Valve are fighting the EU in a geo-blocking case, has been accused of applying pressure to developers about competitive pricing, and has had some issues with the types of games being allowed on the store. On top of that invested in Discord, Lockdown, and Platinum Games.Īnother Chinese company, Netease, invested $100m to get a seat on the board of directors at Bungie. They also own shares in Sumo, Frontier, Activision, Ubisoft, Paradox, Remedy, Yager, Bohemia Interative, and Klei. They also own sizeable chunks of Dontnod Entertainment, Fatshark, Marvelous, and Bluehole Studio, which is part of PUBG publishers Krafton. They have a majority share in Supercell and Grinding Gear Games, and own 40% of Epic, publishers of Fortnite. Tencent owns Riot Games (which paid out in a lawsuit relating to “gender discrimination in pay and promotion, sexual harassment, and retaliation against women”), Funcom, Leyo, and Sharkmob. The CIA is said to have reviewed the company and alleged they received funding from Ministry of State Security as it was being founded. Tencent is a Chinese company with strong links to the oppressive Chinese Communist party and are developing “ Patriotic games” for them. Similar to ‘sports washing’, video games are increasingly funded by regimes with abysmal track records. You will also need an OS, with the most popular ones for gaming being Windows, the first version of which Bill Gates liberally copied from Apple (itself lifting the mouse input from Xerox), and which rose to dominance in part thanks to some extremely anti-competitive behaviour.īlizzard renamed Overwatch character McCree after his namesake was implicated in the ‘Cosby Suite’ scandal.Įven if a developer has a reputable public-facing presence, following the money can show that they’re funded by less than amazing organisations and governments. These are also fabricated in China and also in Taiwan where the death penalty is still in use, and the country is a primary destination for children trafficked for sexual exploitation. Your console includes gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, nick, cobalt, tin, zinc, all of which need to be mined, causing devastation to the natural landscape and pollution.Īll of the above also applies to PCs, and you’re going to need a graphics card from either Nvidia or AMD to game competently.
A spate of suicides linked to low pay at the “Foxconn City” industrial park in Shenzhen, China, has been widely reported alongside several additional suicides at various other Foxconn-owned locations and facilities in Mainland China. Foxxconn is one of the production partners often used by console manufacturers.
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