After scrolling through Netflix looking for anything to stimulate me, I stumbled across “Playing Hard.” A documentary focused on the development cycle of Ubisoft’s For Honor by director Jean-Simon Chariter. Chartier admitted he never had a huge interest in video games but given that Ubi is local to his neighborhood, he jumped in. Jason VandenBerghe, the game’s industry veteran creative director, takes front seat. There is also focus placed …
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I am 50-year-old woman who plays video games. I am not by any stretch of the imagination the “target market”. When I do play MMO’s like Fortnite or Overwatch I am more often than not playing with people, usually male, who are the same age as my children and grandchildren. But I don’t care because, I love playing video games! The first time I played video games was at my friend Misty’s …
The Sugar Gamers visited a special event and playtested our new Project Violacea tabletop Roleplaying Game.
Skrillex and Hikaru Utada have shared the official video for their latest song "Face My Fears", out now on Utada's Face My Fears EP and featured as the opening theme of the recently released game, Kingdom Hearts 3.
I ran into this lovely lady at Dreamhack Atlanta and I have been a fan ever since. She was competing in the final Halo Championship Series and I was impressed with how cool she was under pressure. She’s also just a big ball of positivity and passionate fandom. Starski Wars works hard to maintain her healthy following on Twitch and has some great tips for others looking to get …
We got a pretty nifty holiday present this year in the form of the world’s first digital esports reporter! Assembled by a crack team at Live CGI, CGIMARC7 was left to develop his own tastes and find purpose for his high tech life. He found himself quickly drawn to the world of games and he become fascinated with competitive gaming. He has evolved into a serious esports enthusiast who …
Vice News recently did a piece on the juggernaut that is Fortnite. Part of the piece involved looking at professional Fornite boosters, people who get paid to play on other people’s accounts to boost their stats which is not new for gaming. However, next up was the story of a father who hired a Fortnite tutor for his son who was being bullied for being bad at the game. …
This article was originally published in 2017. Because Sugar Gamers is participating in Nikki Lynette’s self-care challenge, and because there is a growing need for more mental wellness discussions within the tech & gaming community, we are posting an updated version of the original article, written by Sugar Gamers founder Keisha Howard. Since the age of 10, video games have been my favorite way to escape from reality. As …
Here is a situation I have seen countless times on Twitch with low-level streamers both male and female alike struggling to build a following. They’re sitting there live streaming like everyone else and their mom does these days. They look at their viewership numbers and proceed to have a stage five hissy fit about their lack of following and then they immediately point their outrage toward “titty streamers” and it …
In real life, I am a barely functional snowboarder. I can stay upright for an extended period of time, I can move forward and break as needed MOST of the time. Thanks to the latest backwards compatibility update on the Xbox One I have been reunited with one of my favorite original Xbox games, SSX 3 and I can now be the fantastical snowboarder of my dreams again. I have …
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