Editor-in-Chief Metin Ismail talks about some of the most popular and influential people in the Video Games industry leaving their jobs to move on to bigger and better things.
Colin Moriarty has announced his aquisition of a stake in indie game studio, Lillymo Games, and will serve as Chief Creative Ofiicer.
This is really cool. Colin's success is directly attributed to his consistency in the industry. He made IGN great. He founded Kinda Funny. He now has CLS with amazing shows like Knockback and the #1 gaming and #1 Playstation podcast Sacred Symbols. One of games media's largest asset. hope they develop a Metroidvania.
Hell yes to Metrovania. Maybe even a Megaman clone since he's probably the biggest MM fan out there.
I stopped going to IGN when he left, and stopped listening to KF when he left there. The guy brings intelligence and humor to games media, and isn't just "OMG let's do a live hype fest reaction to every damn piece of gaming news."
I don't give a shit about his politics, and I appreciate that he doesn't give a shit about mine.
Even if you're not a PS gamer, Sacred Symbols is probably one of the best general gaming podcasts out there.
Dude, persevered through a lot of bs. Glad he made it through and became even more successful.
All over a silly harmless joke that he refused to apologize for. Good on Colin. Greg can rot in hell for all I care, he's a gutless spineless worm.
Greg sold himself and threw his friend under the bus for money (as you can see by the atrocious EA Live).
Colin made a twitter joke:
"Ah. Peace and quiet.
#ADayWithoutAWoman"
And he was cancelled for only saying that, he got kicked out of the company he founded in his own house, his "friends" turned their back on him, everybody shunned him for something SO stupid.
Part of me believes he was ousted because his peers did not agree with his political stance. If he was a left-wing progressive I believe it would have gotten some chuckles and the joke would have been forgotten. And I'm saying this as someone who doesn't agree with Colin's politics is more left leaning. That doesn't stop me from enjoying his content and respecting the guy.
Lost all respect for the rest of those screaming idiots who betrayed him. That one dumb jackass never knows what the hell he's talking about. I lose brain cells every time I hear him speak. I'm sure I don't have to mention names.
I wish him lots of success. I've followed him since Kinda Funny and he seems like a great guy who (thankfully) doesn't put up with any of this modern day political correctness bullshit.
I quit supporting Kinda funny after Colin came out with his story about Greg basically giving him the shaft after 10+ years of friendship and Greg was like No I want nothing to do with Colin because he has his brand and I have mine. So good for Colin, I hope he continues his success.
oof. Colin's games are trash. I'd be worried if I was a part of that company. Great journalist, terrible at making games.
Colin was in the right while Greg was completely in the wrong when Kinda Funny fell apart.
I’m not the biggest fan of Colin but what happened to him was scummy I’m glad to see his is still doing well in the despite all the unnecessary crap he had to go through.
Cool fan of most of his work BUT will he still cover these titles under CLS, surely we’re meant to discourage conflicts of interest in games media, even if it is already rampant
Andrew writes: "Colin Moriarty revealed earlier today on Twitter that Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure sold over 10k copies and has a sequel in the works."
"PAX West has issued a response to Colin Moriarty's claim that it misled his fans after canceling his PlayStation podcast panel."
This whole saga reveals so much about the sorry state of games ‘journalism.’ PAX we’re unprofessional for rescinding the invite, it indicates that democracy in the USA is threatened. However what’s worst is the games media all deliberately not covering the story because they are aligned with PAX and don’t want to give Colin Moriarty coverage. But this isn’t journalism.
Kotaku, IGN, Polygon, Eurogamer, Kinda Funny, Gamespot and many more are all guilty of this conspiracy of silence.
So what you're saying is that Kotaku, IGN, Polygon, Eurogamer, Kinda Funny, Gamespot and others are the Gaming wing of the Fake News syndicate?
we'll see if any of these "gaming news" sites cover this... I would hope that kinda funny atleast covers it, pretty shameful that only private journalists are the ones writing any stories about this.
Much like actual journalism, games journalism is a complete joke these days. No one takes them seriously, they've been relegated to rage bait factories.
@Anorexorcist. No. Please read my post as that isn’t what I said! Journalism is about reporting news objectively, free from bias. It also means not burying stories (i.e. not reporting newsworthy stories) for personal or ideological reasons.
Never get your news from 1 source, always look at competing arguments and if possible check sources cited.
Gaming media is closely related to chimpanzees flinging shit at the wall and don't get me started on Twitter-twats.
When the news starts referring to twitter twats for news content, it usually means they couldn't be f@cked to do their job.
Maybe if white supremacists could go two days without committing a mass shooting spree people would be more welcoming of conservatives.
I bet IGN, Kotaku, and kinda funny will be there. You can’t tell me that Sacred Symbols doesn’t deserve to be there. If they double booked say it. Then just figure out how to make it right. The silence... then vague response makes me feel like something else is going on. That’s just my opinion.... I could be wrong.
Games journalism is infested with liberal nut jobs that have been hyping each other up in there little bubbles forever.
Democracy in the US is under threat because a panel at PAX is cancelled. Geez, the comments on this site go from pathetic to delusional.
Maybe the 'big' sites not covering this is more a case of 'no-one cares!'.
@Anorexorcist That is EXACTLY what they are saying. And they are 100% correct, especially when it comes to IGN.
@ginganinja said "Democracy in the US is under threat because a panel at PAX is cancelled. Geez, the comments on this site go from pathetic to delusional."
Let me break it down so you can understand what the issue is, Colin Moriarty had his invite rescinded because he isn't a Democrat.
I get my politics from political news, I have no preference for left-wing or right-wing politics in games, I don't want 'journalists' shilling their biases when I read a movie review, or a football match review, or a video game review.
BUT It seems that the games media in the US (perhaps in reaction to Trump) has become ultra partisan with them only hiring people who are Democrats and refusing to hire Republicans - just look at Kotaku and Polygon.
Everyone is entitled their opinions but it becomes a problem when you have a gaming personality like Colin Moriarty (right leaning) being treated like a pariah because he isn't a Democrat. This means gaming reporters have written multiple articles likening him to an extremist (he really isn't) and coverage of him is banned on ResetEra. Then when he has his panel withdrawn, which IS a major news story, they confer not to cover it.
But what PAX did would likely be illegal in the EU because you cannot discriminate against a person because of their race, their religion, their gender, their sexual orientation and even (if it's not extremism) their politics.
Colin Moriarty has always busted his ass for the industry. IGN and Kinda Funny owe him for their success. I wouldn't want to call it before they issue a response but I hope this isn't another attempt at stopping a "conservative" voice. Colin and Chris deserve a response.
KFG is pants now mate, I still enjoy there E3 predictions and stuff but there daily stuff is piss poor these days.
Edit: the episode after Greg got that award and didn't thank any of the kfg staff, the face on Colin was said it all.
Greg thinks he's a celebrity now
I haven't viewed or read any KFG content since Colin left. Have no plans to go back.
KF is all hype and noise, but no substance. It kills me that the group has access to so many resources and information, yet produce nothing of substance. Uniformed nonsense gets the views, I guess.
I haven't tuned in since Colin left.
It's so true, Kevin is the only one I actually like at KFG anymore, I used to love Colin Greg and even Tim, but ever since Colin left Greg and Tim just seem more and more like fake, less genuine, hype beasts. Glad to see Colin has more people supporting him on Patreon than KFG, clearly he was the heavyweight of the group.
Watch easyallies.. So authentic and so much better and their e3 predictions are just the best ive seen ever!
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KOF is bad simple as that. Miller thinks he is some big shot celebrity more than anything now
After Greg won trending or influential gamer, or whatever the f*** it was, that was the beginning of the end. I initially liked Colin + Greg on IGN/Beyond early days. They complimented each other well. Colin was the brains and the gaming insider and Greg was the spunk. But as time went on Greg kept getting louder and more overwhelming. Even at the start of Kinda Funny Greg's ego was huge and his personality was out of control, but once he won the award Colin really took a backseat to the Greg Miller show. I imagine Greg started dominating the creative decisions by that point as well. The sad thing is, Colin really took Greg under his wing in the IGN early days. Colin was the professional with real inside connections and he schooled Greg because they were friends. Greg Miller was a casual nerd who wanted notoriety. Greg is all flash and no substance, he likes Lego games and Nintendo Switch. Colin is a gaming insider with a love of Sony and a passion for writing and history. He loves Japanese games and Megaman. I guess certain ppl will align more with Greg, Fortnite and popcorn gaming is popular for a reason. We live in a pewdiepie, Minecraft universe where obnoxious YouTubers are gods, but i prefer the understated style of Colin Moriarty. I'm attracted to substance over flash and i'll take an in depth 20 minute conversation over a series of loud, obnoxious clips. Ppl like Colin Moriarty are far and few in the industry, while the KFG crew is the same loud hipster casuals u see everywhere.
Some of these game journalists-if you want to call them that-think they're rockstars. It's astounding actually.
While I disagree with a lot of Colin's views I enjoy his podcasts and appreciate who he is.
Tried to listen to KFG but Miller cannot keep himself from yelling and Tim is an f'ing idiot.
Greg Miller is an asshole, cant stand him, Tim is just as bad too, and that "the best friends" bullshit they have on their show is such crap, we all know what Greg does to his best friends.
Is it because of his political views? He does a great job and keeping politics out of his PlayStation podcast unless it crosses over like the worries about the trade war and tariffs affecting next-gen consoles and pricing.
I hate Colin's politics, but i enjoy his gaming coverage. I separate the two and ignore the politics. On the other hand i can't stand Greg/KFG, but i'm sure my politics more closely align with their's. However, when i seek out gaming coverage i'm not thinking about politics. If i want politics i'll go to a source that covers it professionally. I can't roast Colin and promote Greg simply because of how they lean politically. In certain areas a person's political affiliation can have a greater impact on my feelings towards them, but in gaming i try to keep it separate and enjoy. At least in Colin's case i do, because Colin has earned a certain amount of cred in this industry and he deserves to be respected for his gaming acumen. Unless he allows politics to sour his gaming coverage, which he hasn't done in the past. Maybe he's gone nutty, idk? Truth is i don't really seek out that type of gaming coverage anymore. I don't enjoy most major sites, KFG is terrible, and once Colin left and started doing history podcasts and dropped gaming i stopped caring. But the Colin i knew was about gaming when it was gaming, politics didn't poison his gaming coverage. Hopefully that hasn't changed because Colin is great when he keeps it strictly gaming.
Yeah, it is. There are a lot of centrists in the mainstream videogame journalism scene and they're usually the ones to be tribal about the whole ordeal; they're the Republicans of the good side (and yes it is the good side.)
Centrists always handle politics clumsily. They're only good for keeping the people within the reach of the right. They're as greedy as republicans, they're just a lot stupider.
Colin has always been the voice of reason and the true gaming insider in the Greg/KFG bunch. Greg/KFG is worthless without him and it has simply devolved into an obnoxious joke fest where nothing is taken seriously and where real, hardcore gaming discussion goes to die. Colin always held the wheels on and without him it's just an unfunny frat house of inside jokes, bad facial hair, stupid tee-shirts, flabby faux hipster nerds with inflated egos, and casual gaming coverage aimed at the lowest common denominator.
To be honest, ever since Colin left IGN/Beyond podcast both have been terrible. Max is hideous on IGN and Greg, Gettys, Scarpino, and Cortez are nauseating on KFG.
Ugh this dumb ass phrase. Who ever came up with "get woke go broke" should have the ground break under them and be swallowed up into a sinkhole.
@Peekayboo
You think I'm hurt? I think I'm the least hurt in this whole thread lol.
If you don't think that phrase is as dumb as hell as well, then I don't know what to say. Everybody has their own opinions.
Agreed. Have literally gone to PAX every year since inception but I won't be back now. I will not abide such extreme disrespect, both for the fans and for half of the world/country. "The Right" is not just some fringe in the United States, its half the friggin planet.
What's so crazy is that Colin is always open to other views. I cannot stand how people behave nowadays. Frankly, it's embarrassing.
I want to thank PAX. They finally pushed me to become a patron for Colin's Last Stand.
I enjoy sacred symbol as they talk about different topics not just the usual rinse and repeat BS copy and paste n4g articles.
Seriously that's all youtubers do copy and paste a daily article say the same things we've just read 12hrs b4 and gamers give them money lol.
Pretty crazy that you have to lean right to be a “rebel” dissenter these days. I think it’s hilarious that the people trying to shut down speech have the gall to call somebody else a fascist. Are people really this dumb, gullible and have a complete lack of self-awareness? Yes, apparently they are.
right, he's not even really right wing, more of a centrist, but if you aren't fully left then they don't want to have anything to do with you in the games industry apparently
Colin's a slightly right of center Libertarian. The fact that somehow even that's an extremist to some folks says a lot.
Colin's political views are extreme though. Libertarian views can absolutely be extreme. It isn't solely predicated on left or right. Colin has always had strong political views. His Twitter handle is NoTaxation. I really hope Colin hasn't gone full Trump and allowed his political views to poison his gaming coverage because the man is a knowledgeable and highly respected gaming journalist and it would be a shame if he overshadowed that with nutty political views. In this thread i've stood up for Colin solely as a gaming journalist because i enjoy what he does in that specific field. I always cringed when Colin talked politics or even mentioned his handle. In truth i don't follow specific members of the gaming media anymore and i'm basing my views on the Colin i knew. Politics are important, the political climate can impact the gaming industry, but in the past i've tried to keep the two separate. It's a complicated time and it's a shame that i have to even rethink my admiration for Colin Moriarty's gaming acumen because of political affiliation.
You could always, oh, idk, actually look at that for yourself instead of just assuming.
And no, those aren't extreme views. Especially by the standards of the current political climate. That you see him as extreme says a lot more about you than Colin, tbh. And that's me speaking as someone who disagrees with him in multiple areas.
To be fair, they're not hindering his speech, they have the freedom to not provide a platform, is it not a private event?
That said, I'd rather just enjoy games than listen to either side bitch about nitpicks or every time the protagonist just happens to be female or of another ethnicity rather than white, even if it was a concious decision it's a CHOICE they were free to make no different than CHOOSING a white male (& I typically default to white male when given the code but I fail to see the issue with other choices).
Yes they are free to hinder speech as a private platform. It doesn’t make them any less scummy for it.
This is truly an embarrassment on PAX's part. There's definitely an employee at PAX who's probably a left-wing progressive nut that thinks everyone who disagrees with them is a Nazi.
If you can't even have a panel at a video game conference because you are a Conservative, then I don't know how society is supposed to move forward from here. This is getting way out of hand. Colin has always been a very respectful and thoughtful person, so it's a shame to see this kind of behavior from such a major organization.
"Colin has always been a very respectful and thoughtful person"
And his handful of controversies for inappropriate jokes and hateful rhetoric determined that is a lie.
Hateful rhetoric? really? You've got some serious problems if you have taken anything he has said as being hateful. Get a life!
I've never seen him do much that is hateful, I've seen him make jokes sometimes, like 99.9% of the gaming podcasts out there, but nothing truly hateful...
The term "inappropriate joke" is an oxymoron in my book. If you're in the business of telling "appropriate jokes," then you're doing it wrong.
His "hateful rhetoric" is just more virtue signaling from the attention seeking, "I'm going to find a way to be offended," crowd. Remember a time when people understood that we may not agree on everything but not all opinions are cause for a damn political movement? I do. If you need reminded, turn off Twitter and go engage with the real world.
The dude is intelligent and brings a higher level of discourse to gaming coverage than hundreds of others. Even though I don't agree with his political opinions a lot, I'm still able to appreciate that there are people willing to stand up to the exhausting hive mind and stand by their own opinions.
I find this stuff truly shameful, because I don't care if you're a conservative or a liberal no one should have their freedoms taken away.
This is America and every American has the freedom to their own beliefs, but sadly now if you don't follow group think you can lose your job because of that.
Exactly, and if all you are able to do is express one political belief, then you are basically living in a communist country.
I have no clue what this is story is about, and I'm sure I'll get down votes for this... but this has nothing to do with "freedom" in America. Your rights and freedoms only protect you from the government. It does not protect your job or anything else.
This is less about PAX disinviting him and canceling his panel, and more about their refusal to refund anyone who paid to see it, as well as his peers refusing to cover and talk about it for what appears to be political reasons.
Well there are some anti discrimination laws in various places that make it difficult to refuse service or to terminate employment because of political beliefs.
Glad to see the comments arent people just piling on colin. This guy has done a lot for our industry. He'll keep rockin.
Take a look at his appearances on jre it highlights everything wrong with the industry
How about keep politics out of stuff & let people be individuals ? Soon only the Left will be allowed on Social Media & they will have eventually start making us answer if we are Left or Right & only Left allowed
Yet you made a comment bashing the left.
I'd prefer to focus on the decision makers rather than an entire group of people with differing levels of belief.
Because its the left thats the decision makers here & lets be honest they all think this way. You NEVER see articles of the Right denying business to the left / firing people because they think differently than the Right. Only the LEFT is doing this
It’s not the right making everything about politics and race. That’s the left wing at the moment.
He’s not wrong. The decision makers are currently hard left wingers and they’re using their bias to enforce bias based rules.
I’m not a right winger and I see this. Twitter even admitted it and so did Facebook
Oh don't bullshit me. I'm left, I believe in pro-choice, universal healthcare, government owned and run utilities, gun control, etc, etc.
But I & most on the left are against arbitrary censorship, not forgetting that it's traditionally & more frequently those on the right attacking video games and entertainment. Didn't the USA just have another massacre and the first response of many conservatives was to point the blame on video games?
Isn’t it ridiculous that censorship continues to be fine because other people have different ideas or politics than them? I understand that Colin has his problems like anybody else in the world, but the man has been thrown under the bus by Greg Miller and continues to get attacked because of his views. The only time that I had a problem with Colin was when he made a video about the ending of Mass Effect 3. But I don’t think Colin is a bad person. I have no problem standing up for people like Colin because the gaming media doesn’t have the right to target people that don’t fit their agenda. I have attacked other media sites including PC Gamer for getting their facts wrong or having an agenda article.
PAX added to blacklist. Also disappointing the larger games sites hasn't picked up on this story, but continue to ignore it, because they all don't wat to piss off PAX and disagree with Colin on totally irrelevant matters.
haaa. conservatives are fucking scum. cry tears fanboys, cry delicious salty tears you incel-kek fucks.
From the guy who names himself after the second-biggest mass murderer in history.
He's obviously a Left Wing extremist with Commie views. Should be put on a FBI/CIA watch list like they did back in the 1950s
Definitely a troll.
Curious about its agenda...
To be such a wanker pretending to be left to incite others to joining conservative causes?
Or actually genuinely on the left side and simply happens to be a fucking moron?
Given the prominence of 4chan and the lengths people will go to further their cause, I'd wager the former, but could be either, or maybe even an apolitical troll.
so they used this person to get others to purchase tickets to their event ..
cancelled his attending and tell those who bought tickets to see him, "NO REFUNDS"
The gaming industry is crashing, plan on seeing more and more insidious practices for coin as the ships sinks.
This has got to be the highest agree to disagree ratio I’ve ever seen on N4G. It’s like gamers on here are banding together or something. Pax should be ashamed of itself for doing this.
That isn’t it, one wonders what it really is. There are a lot of republicans who don’t get this sort of treatment.
"PAX refuses to give refunds to members of our audience who no longer want to attend due to our absence" Call your Credit Card company, they will reverse the change, then call the shit bag at PAX who was in charge tell him/her fuck you how do you like that now.
Never really agreed with Colins politics but I was always a fan of his. He's been getting a raw deal lately.
Was this panel just one of many? If so, ain't no large show going to handout refunds because a single thing is canceled.
People paid to go specifically to see his panel.Think of it this way.Lets say there's a concert with many different groups and you're favorite group will be there.You find out and figure hell I'll go and see them You buy you're ticket.Then last minute the people who set up the concert say you're group has been cancelled.After they used them to sell tickets.And then you no longer decide you want to go cuz they won't be there.They will not issue you a refund.In other words this is FALSE ADVERTISING and hope Pax gets their asses sued for it.
Glad you brought up the concert example, because that happens all the time and you aren't going to get a refund. You can get a refund if the whole event is cancelled or if the "headline" act is not going to make it. You aren't going to get a refund because some other band scheduled to be there does not show or is removed from the event.
It sucks but that is how it works with events like this. Scheduling changes happen. There's no proof that you purchased a ticket to see "so and so". Anyone could use these kind of things to get out of a purchase.
PAX are disgusting for this. This is nothing short of discrimination, why? Because Colin doesn't lean all the way left? And the media sites that are keeping this quiet? Equally disgusting.
Isnt colin super anti Playstation? At least thats what I remember from his IGN days.
Oh gosh no, he and Greg were the only ones at IGN willing to give them positive coverage back in the PS3 days especially.
Colin's just more vocally critical, but it's out of love rather than malice.
The reminds me of that Screeching Weasel song: cool kids
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It's a shame he has let his political position define him including keeping the *don't tread on me" picture as his Twitter photo. The guy does really good work when he is able to remove his right wing slant from his gaming opinions. It probably didn't help him that Trump has energized everyone politically, so where you stand is hyper focused on now. In fact, I think had Trump not been elected, Collin is still at Kinda Funny.
What’s wrong with “don’t tread on me?” I don’t get it. Are we really at a point where wanting individual freedom is taboo? That’s freaking sad...
Nothing wrong with it other than it is associated with politics and more specifically the right. My point was if he removed himself from politics, especially in this hyper energized and very polarized political environment, he would avoid all the negativity that comes with it. But not only has he let it defined him, he wears it with a badge of honor, which just doesn't seem to be the wisest move in this political climate.
It’s not associated with the right lmao. It’s the Gadsden flag, one of the first American flags. He’s obviously into the American revolution with that and his tag “no taxation without representation”. There is nothing partisan about that at all, that’s literally why this country was founded lol. If you take
Offense to that then maybe you are the one on the extreme end.
Hahaha! So it’s biased because one guy said so in the New Yorker? Not biased! Racist! Lmao! What a load. Goofballs can spin anything I guess. Screw history!
He doesn’t have a right wing slant. He keeps his personal politics out for the most part.
Don’t tread on me isn’t republic. What are you talking about?
You sound like those people who just regurgitate everything they read without doing any fact checking at all.
It's associated with American history and a version of it is still flown in the U.S. Navy. Colin's a big history buff too, hence why he has "Join or Die" tattooed on his arm in the same font as the old flags and posters, and why he focuses on it often in his podcasts and shows.
Yes it's been used in political rallies before but it was used during protests back in the 1970s too. It's simply an anti-authoritarian statement.
I'm all for not wanting conservatives at your event, I wouldn't want them at mine either. But if you're PAX, you obviously knew about these views before hand. Once you have an agreement, you should stick to it. And if you ARE going to cancel someone's event, at least have the balls to tell them the reason.
Nice to see your bigotry out in the open. The right now has people of all political views at their events and they encourage it.
The left in the other hand just shuns, mocks and deplatforms.
You’re making me ashamed of being left wing.
Get ready for 4 more years of trump.
Not surprised, the leftists sjw Nazi crusade to crush anything and everything that doesn't align completely with their views is in full effect. They resemble the Nazi party more and more. The next thing you will see is the rounding up of conservatives to put in camps for the formatting of your politics and the fresh install of theirs by any means necessary. This is what happens when your views are controlled by pure emotion and hate instead of common sense and facts.
How are the actions of a group that held an event related to a specific party? Furthermore Trump is the closest thing we've come to a fascist so it is funny that you are calling the left Nazi. And lastly, the party you seem to identify with is the ones who are rounding people up and putting them in cages. Your entire comment is nothing more than projection.
If you think trump is the closest thing to fascist the states has had you obviously do not follow politics AT ALL. He’s the furthest left Republican ever elected.
Jesus you people just eat everything up. If trump took a shit you’d whine about how it killed a fly going down to the toilet and call him a speciest murderer.
Remember when FDR actually did round up American Citizens and toss them in camps during WWII because they couldn't be trusted due to being of Japanese or German descent?
Not near as fascist as what we have today, I suppose.
Trump is an idiot, ignorant, a blowhard, and an authoritarian with a disturbing love affair for dictators of the Fascist AND Communist persuasion, but that's because he just loves power, period.
BEYOND!