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01/09/2020

It’s September! What better way to start the month than by catching up on August with the hottest hosts in town?

Our new podcast, Any 1-UP?, is available wherever you listen to your podcasts 💖

Any 1-Up? is a monthly podcast from Uppercut where the hosts, Jessica Howard and Kayla Jouet, get together to recap the last month's video game news, talk about their lives, and get down and dirty with some NSFW topics and questions.

01/09/2020

Tonight, join our editor-in-chief Ty Galiz-Rowe and Fanbyte's Kenneth Shephard as they discuss Best Friends Forever! 🐶❤️

Tune in at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT for our next Game Gabs

Just some q***r nerds looking to have fun with our community

31/08/2020

"In Persona 5 Royal, Atlus perpetuates their long-standing relationship with toxic masculinity by refusing to acknowledge the predatory nature and agency of the game’s mature love interests, choosing instead to portray them as taboo sexual conquests."

Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers for Persona 5. Furthermore, this article examines sexual assault and abuse at length. Lastly, a huge thank you to my editor, Ty Galiz-Rowe, who sat on a call with me talking

31/08/2020

"Ghost of Tsushima is a game of emptiness. The emptiness of war. The emptiness of a map far too large for its own good [...] But most importantly, the emptiness of its representation of Mongolian and Japanese culture."

Ghost of Tsushima is a game of emptiness. The emptiness of war. The emptiness of a map far too large for its own good. The emptiness of repeated actions that were once interesting, but are

31/08/2020

"It’s no longer sufficient to add people of color to your game’s roster of characters. Nor is it enough to voice characters of color with actors of color (though it’s a fu***ng good place to start). There must be an effort made to recognize that putting marginalized characters in your game, a good and necessary goal, must also come with doing service to the precise and nuanced shape of their singular identities."

Along with everything else, the voice acting industry has entered a fraught space in 2020. In response to the unjust police killings a few months back of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others, people across

31/08/2020

"It didn’t take me long to realize that things were very different from how I left them. Gone were the idiosyncrasies that had baffled me in the past, and in their place was a robust and complex world, more structurally reminiscent of Tolkien’s Middle Earth than what I had seen all those years before."

I was in high school when I played League of Legends for the first time. A friend of mine was obsessed with the game, and recommended I check it out. I very quickly discovered that

31/08/2020

"I have a friend who, like many people, lost his job due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He now faces the unenviable task of paying rent either through supermarket work or burning through his savings. When I asked him why he enjoyed Animal Crossing: New Horizons, he told me, ‘It’s a fantasy.’

‘About paying your mortgage?’ I asked.

‘About paying OFF my mortgage.’"

I have a friend who, like many people, lost his job due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He now faces the unenviable task of paying rent either through supermarket work or burning through his savings. When

31/08/2020

Hi, folks- welcome to Uppercut's shiny, new page!

We'll be sharing our top five most read stories in August today and we hope you enjoy (and maybe even share) 'em!