Do Not Buy The War Crime Games

Satya Nadella is an evil fucking worm and dipshit beneficiary of government contracts. He’s the Azure jackass with a tall ass melon who runs an AI company called Microsoft. I could continue to talk about the general ways I dislike him on a personal level, but I’ll instead focus on a specific one: He’s involved in many of my hobbies, including an enthusiasm for gaming and hardware. If you see the company Xbox, know that that’s his company. Xbox recently released a first-person shooter game in the shape of Halo called Halo: Campaign Evolved. You do not, under any circumstances, need to buy a war crime game.

First let’s just talk about the practical: There’s no shortage of video games. You can get an emulator and a ROM made by people who really care. You can also mod a pre-owned Xbox if you aren’t a coward. If you want something movement-based that plays fast, ULTRAKILL works. I Am Your Beast runs on a toaster just fine. Or to hell with it, just get on the Doomworld forums or even just download a brand new, unknown game for once. Nobody needs Microsoft’s evil little ‘wares, particularly when the market has never been more saturated.

This is not the first product Xbox has put out. They also put an evil refrigerator out, and specifically put one out in “OG Green.” I hate these winking little shits. Not only are they using retro gaming to be fascists, they’re doing it in the corniest way humanly possible.

Former games reporting website IGN works constantly to signal boost that evil dipshit’s pet project, notably avoiding reporting on the BDS movement, boycott of Xbox, or Microsoft’s ties to the genocide in Palestine. In the spirit of Hating, I’d like to officially state that IGN can go fuck itself.

Kotaku also likes to run obsequious coverage of Xbox games, and this time, immediately got dragged for it on socials. Kotaku can also fuck off.

We cannot let these people feel comfortable in our hobby. Even if it’s just on a personal level, I’m sick of seeing them. No Games For Genocide said it best last December: “[I]t cannot be denied that the [games media] industry can, and often does, act as an extension of video game marketing. Whether it’s the intention or not, regular coverage of the biggest games around offers a form of free advertisement. This means that journalists need to think about the role we play in upholding or boosting sales for companies complicit in genocide, like Xbox… Halt all coverage of Xbox-published games,” and “if you have to cover Xbox-published games, always do so with context about Microsoft’s activities and the ongoing boycott.”

If we do not draw a line somewhere, they will continue to bring their hatred to us. There’s no better time than the present.

Thanks to Aftermath.