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Gaming Documentary Featuring Alyssa Mercante Fails to Reach $400 on GoFundMe as Gamers Rally Around SmashJT Legal Defense Fund

Gaming Documentary Featuring Alyssa Mercante Fails to Reach $400 on GoFundMe as Gamers Rally Around SmashJT Legal Defense Fund

The gaming industry has become a battleground for cultural and political ideologies, with a stark divide forming between the virtue signaling “woke” crowd and everyday gamers exhausted by constant political messaging and finger-wagging. The community’s response to two recent events—the crowd-funding campaign of Gaming While Black, a documentary featuring former Kotaku editor Alyssa Mercante, and Mercante’s contentious lawsuit against YouTuber SmashJT—illustrates the widening chasm between these groups in what’s become known as the gaming culture war.

Disney+ Quietly Revives Spielberg Indiana Jones Blockbusters After Shocking Disappearance

Disney+ Quietly Revives Spielberg Indiana Jones Blockbusters After Shocking Disappearance

After a surprising disappearance from its streaming library, Disney+ has quietly reinstated the four classic (well…three classic and Crystal Skull…) Indiana Jones films directed by Steven Spielberg: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Disneyland’s Creativity Crisis Continues: Company Scrambles to Fix Haunted Mansion AI Art Blunders After Fan Backlash

Disneyland’s Creativity Crisis Continues: Company Scrambles to Fix Haunted Mansion AI Art Blunders After Fan Backlash

Disney has quietly removed the AI-generated “Ghostly Bride” artwork from the Madame Leota’s Somewhere Beyond Haunted Mansion gift shop at Disneyland. The Haunted Mansion AI art, which was traced back to Redbubble and revealed to have glaringly artificial flaws, sparked outrage among fans and even some of Disney’s typically forgiving defenders.