ga Spyro Reignited Trilogy Headed to Xbox Game Pass Tomorrow, November 12 By www.vgchartz.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:26:38 GMT Following a tease, Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have announced Spyro Reignited Trilogy will release for Xbox Game Pass tomorrow, November 12. VGChartz staff gave Spyro Reignited Trilogy an 8 out of 10 and stated, "it was wise to steer away from marketing the collection as a remaster because that label undercuts the developers’ level of dedication and investment in revitalizing these games." Read details on the trilogy below: Remade from the ground up, the Spyro Reignited Trilogy features all three of the original games that started it all – Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage, and Spyro: Year of the Dragon, amazing for the original fans and new players alike. Spyro the Dragon Our new favorite little purple dragon starts on a quest to rescue his dragon friends who have been turned into crystal by the villain Gnasty Gnorc (what an unfortunate and yet apt name!). Spyro explores vibrant Dragon Realms, collects gems, and flambés his enemies, all while learning to how breathe fire and glide. Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! Spyro finds himself in the magical land of Avalar where he is trying to save the realm from the evil sorcerer Ripto and his minions. Along the way, he befriends new entirely new allies, overcomes challenges, complete tasks, and unlocks even more powers to take down Ripto and restore peace. Spyro: Year of the Dragon In Spyro: Year of the Dragon, Spyro finds out that the Dragon Eggs have been stolen by the devious Sorceress, sending him on a new mission to recover the eggs and save the dragon population. Our favorite purple dragon meets new friends, learns new abilities, all while exploring more vibrant realms with challenges (and treasures!). Xbox players have been able to explore the Dragon Realms with Spyro since 2018 with the release of the Reignited Trilogy, and now we’re excited to invite our community to jump into these incredible adventures once again and relive the fun and nostalgia that only Spyro can bring. Available on Game Pass Standard, Game Pass Ultimate, and PC Game Pass, for cloud, console and PC, it’s sure to ignite some serious fun. Let’s go save the Dragon Realms! A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.Full Article - https://www.vgchartz.com/article/463034/spyro-reignited-trilogy-headed-to-xbox-game-pass-tomorrow-november-12/ Full Article Analysis Charts Industry
ga Harris Shuts Down Bret Baier as He Plays the MAGA Hits By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:56:37 GMT Fox NewsIn a contentious interview with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, Fox News host Bret Baier spent no time going after the vice president with a laundry list of the subjects often highlighted by former President Donald Trump on the campaign trail.Immediately after the interview kicked off, Baier opened by asking: “How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years?”Harris began a carefully worded answer, but Baier consistently interrupted her before she could finish a sentence.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article Politics
ga Liam Payne Was Embroiled in Bitter Legal Fight With Ex When He Died By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:13:45 GMT Michael Kovac/GettyPrior to his untimely death in Argentina on Wednesday, One Direction’s Liam Payne, 31, was in the middle of a legal spat with his ex-fiancée Maya Henry.On Monday, The Sun reported that Henry, 23, had lawyered up in an attempt to stop Payne from constantly messaging her family and friends.“Maya Henry issued a cease and desist last week to Liam Payne following the emergence of new and concerning information…She has retained attorneys Marco Crawford and Daniel Cerna to represent her. At this time, that is her only comment on the matter,” a spokesperson for Henry told the tabloid.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article Entertainment
ga ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’: Is Heather Gay a Hypocrite for Taking Ozempic? By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 02:00:51 GMT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/BravoThe Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is TV’s best soap opera, week after week offering twists more shocking than secret twins and characters returning from the dead. That’s because it’s all real, happening in the most haunted suburb in the continental United States.Where else do two women connect over knowing the long-lost birth father of one’s child? Is there another city where women squabble over body positivity in a parking lot off the side of a snowy mountain? Surely, there’s no other place on Earth where Lisa Barlow could come across anywhere near a voice of reason.But that all happens here in Salt Lake City. Five episodes in, Season 5 has continued to evolve into the most captivating season in modern Real Housewives history, carried by the ever-changing bonds between our OGs and a team of wonderfully bizarre newbies.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article
ga Anderson Cooper Literally Calls Bulls*** on Surrogate’s Trump Defense By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 03:37:30 GMT CNNCNN anchor Anderson Cooper was flabbergasted Wednesday by a surrogate’s defense of Donald Trump, calling his explanation for the former president’s bombastic statements literal “bulls---.”On AC360, former California Lieutenant Gov. Abel Maldonado, a Republican, said that Trump’s recent comments calling for the military to “handle” Democrats were simply his way of expressing his inner New Yorker. “He’s a fighter,” Maldonado added.The conversation began when Cooper brought up Trump’s former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, who, alongside other military leaders, have begun to warn of the dangers of re-electing the former president. Milley has called Trump a “fascist to his core.”Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article Media
ga Tegan and Sara: The Pop-Rock Twins Driven Mad by a Wild Catfishing Scheme By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:00:00 GMT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/HuluOnline interactions are based on trust, since there are few definitive ways to certify the identity of the person with whom one is communicating. Naturally, this situation can lead to deception and manipulation, as it has—to tormenting effect—for Tegan and Sara, the popular indie rock duo whose lives have been turned upside down by a mysterious bad faith actor who, for more than a decade, has impersonated Tegan with fans, friends, and business partners.Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara is an investigation into the myriad means by which the internet can be wielded to nefarious ends. More than that, though, it’s an anatomy of a crime and the complicated wreckage wrought by it, not just for the famous artists but also for the innocent admirers who were tricked into believing that fiction was reality.Premiering on Hulu on Oct. 18, following its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Erin Lee Carr’s documentary is a chilling snapshot of the unholy marriage of corrosive fandom and online duplicity. At its center are Tegan and Sara, the identical twin songstresses who began making a name for themselves in the early 2000s both for their talent and for being openly gay. This earned them a loyal fanbase of queer women and men who saw themselves reflected in Tegan and Sara, and that bond was strengthened by the siblings’ active interest in interacting with fans in person—Tegan would chat with show attendees in line and at the merch table—and on LiveJournal and other budding message-board platforms that afforded a previously unavailable degree of contact.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article
ga Stormy Daniels Says Trump Is Trying to Silence Her Again By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:30:21 GMT Phillip Faraone/Getty ImagesIt appears Donald Trump is once again attempting to silence Stormy Daniels, despite his recent convictions in that category.MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reports that Trump’s lawyers tried to “get another hush money deal” with the adult film star, to keep her from making any “public or private statements related to any alleged past interactions” with the former president. In exchange for her written agreement, Trump’s team reportedly offered to adjust the debt she owes Trump for the unsuccessful defamation case her lawyer brought against him in 2018.Daniels still needs to pay “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in legal fees, Maddow explained, and in hammering out the exact amount, Trump’s lawyers allegedly offered to “pretend” she owed their client “less than they actually believed” she did. Whereas they first estimated Daniels’ debt at $650,000, Maddow reported, they said they would settle her tab for $620,000, if she promised not to make any “defamatory or disparaging statements about him, his business, and/or any affiliates, or his suitability as a candidate for president.” They then adjusted the fee, asking $635,000 if she refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Daniels reportedly turned them down, paying $627,500 and declining to sign the NDA.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article Politics
ga Witnesses Say Would-Be Organ Donor Started ‘Thrashing’ on the Table By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:52:09 GMT BSIP/Universal Images Group via GettyDisaster was averted at a Kentucky hospital when an ostensibly deceased organ donor began “thrashing” around in the operating theater, a preservationist tells NPR.“He was moving around,” Natasha Miller recalled of the patient, whom NPR identified as Anthony Thomas “TJ” Hoover II. “He was crying visibly.”The two surgeons assigned to the transplant naturally refused to go through with the procedure, which was reportedly scheduled to take place at Baptist Health Richmond Hospital in October 2021. But when her colleague called Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates, which coordinated the harvest, Miller said the supervisor told them they “were going to do the case” and needed to “find another doctor.”Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article U.S. News
ga In strategy game Sintopia you harvest a whole civilisation's souls for your own custom-built hell By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:49:53 +0000 One of my favourite satires is the Screwtape Letters, an epistolary novel by Narnia scribe C.S. Lewis. It consists of messages from an oily elder demon to his nephew about how to correctly groom the soul of an unsuspecting human being. It's a claustrophobic send-up of managerial politics and nepotism, with World War 1 unfolding in the background. A real pick-me-up. Sintopia is the Two Point incarnation of that premise - in other words, brighter and breezier and definitely more slapstick than Christian. It puts you in charge of a world divided between Earth and hell, and challenges you to ensure a steady movement of optimally sinful souls between one and the other. Say your prayers and watch the trailer. Read more Full Article Strategy PC Fantasy Sintopia Management
ga Nightingale can't outfly "the stark realities of the industry" as creators Inflexion close UK office and lay people off By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:10:44 +0000 Inflexion Games are closing their UK office, laying off staff and restructuring their main Canadian studio after failing to find commercial success with their Victorian fantasy survival game Nightingale. Reportedly, at least 22 people have been let go. Read more Full Article Layoffs Inflexion Games PC Action Adventure Nightingale
ga The trick to Dragon Age's lore is that the lore is lying, says original "uber-plot" writer David Gaider By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:48:59 +0000 Part of the fun of Dragon Age's fantasy is that it's inconsistent - or at least, inconsistent by the standards of fantasy RPGs, which often break down into a million neatly organised and interlocking codex entries. It all rides on who you speak to. The humans believe one thing about the origins and workings of Thedas, the elves another, the qunari something else entirely. These differences are the basis for many factional disagreements and thus, many core series plot developments. According to former lead writer David Gaider, however, there's an "uber-plot" behind it all that may one day be resolved and bring the series to a close, assuming BioWare continue to refer to his original (and closely guarded) narrative documents. Read more Full Article Strategy Electronic Arts RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard Action Adventure Single Player Bioware
ga Moida Mansion is the new free game from Return Of The Obra Dinn’s Lucas Pope, and it's out now By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 09:37:13 +0000 You remember Lucas Pope, right? He who casually dropped two of the most influential puzzle games ever then got distracted by yellow cranks for six years, occasionally popping up to drop a demake of Papers Please? Well, Pope has ceased hogging that crank, for now at least, and just released Haloween-y adventure game Moida Mansion. It’s on Itch here, and it’s completely free to play in your browser. Read more Full Article Puzzle Moida Mansion Free games Indiescovery Lucas Pope
ga The Maw: what's new in PC games this week? By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 07:53:31 +0000 SCENE. A Video Game Website At Sunrise. Enter A Reader Of News A Reader Of News I wonder whither there be'est any new PC games on sale this week, perchance? Enter A News Editor, With Alarums And Excursions Read more Full Article The Maw liveblog
ga We’ve learned the hard way that ganging up on Deadlock doesn’t make it more digestible By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:14:34 +0000 The mystery surrounding Deadlock, Valve’s work-in-progress MOBA shooter, has largely evaporated. Its freely extendable invite system is about as effective at controlling player headcount as a disinterested football steward, meaning pretty much anyone with a clued-in Steam friend can get in and start poking around its secrets. And yet, being a lane-pushing wizard fighter in the Dota 2 vein, it’s already a vast tangle of interplaying abilities, items, strats, and often unspoken rules, of the kind that even experienced gankists will take hundreds of hours to learn. It’s been too much for poor Brendy, at any rate. Still, Brendy is but one man. What if we had but four men, working in tandem to crush lanes and flatten Patrons just as Gabe intended? To find out if Deadlock is indeed more comprehensible as a team sport, Graham, Ed, Ollie, and James joined forces, promptly getting fucked up yet emerging from the warlock hospital with a deeper understanding of its workings. Or, at least, if anyone would keep playing. Read more Full Article Strategy Third person Virtual Reality Multiplayer Competitive PC Shooter MOBA Single Player Deadlock Valve
ga Baldur’s Gate 3's reactivity didn’t ruin Veilguard's linearity for me - it let me enjoy it more By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:08:15 +0000 Minor spoilers for the first few hours of Veilguard and heavy spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3 For all the things I ended up enjoying about Dragon Age: The Veilguard, it isn’t much of an RPG. What little roleplaying it does offer revolves around what flavour of supportive hero you prefer, and you can count the number of impactful dialogue decisions on a three-fingered hand. This might sound utterly damning in the wake of Baldur's Gate 3’s incredible reactivity, and if I approached games as some sort of tedious comparative intellectual exercise rather than just, y’know, seeing how I felt about them, then I suppose it would be. Weirdly, though, the recent memory of Baldur’s Gate 3 didn’t diminish my time with Veilguard at all. It was actually the opposite: it freed Dragon Age from having to carry the torch for a certain period in Bioware’s history, and let me enjoy Veilguard for what it was. Read more Full Article Strategy Electronic Arts RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard Action Adventure Single Player Bioware
ga This bite-size free horror game has you study an ancient artefact that holds a dark secret By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:36:52 +0000 I have zero archaeology experience or knowledge, but I bet archaeologists really love their jobs (for the most part). They get to analyse and discover cool artefacts and educate us on the histories of forgotten civilisations. That's dreamy stuff, that is. But I do wonder what it's like for archaeologists to discover and study something they shouldn't have; something with a disturbing secret - a curse, maybe. Bite-sized horror game The Children Of Clay explores this idea and I'd like more of it, please. Read more Full Article Horror The Children Of Clay Indie PC Balazs Ronyai Point and Click Free-to-play
ga Bambas! is Untitled Shoes Game By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:14:37 +0000 The trailer for Bambas! starts off innocently enough. It's an "innovative urban walking simulator" in which you play a disembodied pair of shoes, individually moved with a controller's analog sticks and trigger buttons. The first half of the trailer is all whimsy and playground fun - kicking a football, standing on a climbing frame, riding a skateboard. But then a note of darkness creeps in, as the player begins to channel the sheer nihilistic inconsequentiality of a world in which shoes have no thinking human bodies to restrain them. Read more Full Article Puzzle Exploration PC Comedy Walking Sim Bambas!
ga Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign review: a military shooter that comes disguised as other, better games By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000 As a yearly blockbuster, Call of Duty, through sheer expense and effort, would like you to think it is the Die Hard of video games. Or, depending on the setting, the Saving Private Ryan of video games. But it is barely Black Hawk Down. This latest campaign in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 reminds me more of the forgettable Netflix shootfests that thumbnail their way across your TV screen as you try to find some gritty nothing to aid you in zoning out of life. Still, there is an anecdotal contingent of casual sofa sitters for whom Call Of Duty is the game. A balls-to-the-wall shooter to return to every winter and rinse through in a weekend. Ed has already gestured at its multiplayer, announcing: "yup, it's COD", like a deeply tired Captain Birdseye inspecting the day's catch, wondering when his life will change. But never mind that. How does the single player story mode hold up? Some are calling it the best campaign in years. And I guess that's true, in the sense that it is the least worst. Read more Full Article Raven Software Wot I Think Treyarch Xbox Series X/S Action Adventure Sledgehammer Games Single Player Xbox One PS4 Infinity Ward Activision PS5 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Shooter: First Person Blockbuster First person Shooter
ga You can now make video clips using Steam's built-in game recording feature, as an update rolls it out to all users By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:23:41 +0000 Steam's built-in game recording feature has been usable in beta since the summer, but it has now been properly launched for every user, following a client update to Steam yesterday. It's basically another method of capturing funny ragdoll glitches and posting them on the "lol-games-are-dumb" channel of your friend's Discord. Or for posting that flukey knife throw in Call Of Duty to Twitter, as if you really meant to kill the man from across the map all along. Or saving a clip for your personal records, like the footage of that time you yeeted an innocent citizen off the 50-foot wall of a castle town in Dragon's Dogma 2. We all do that, right? Right? Read more Full Article Steam PC Valve
ga Oh thank Horace, our comments system is up and running again By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:32:26 +0000 "Never read the comments," is a truth much-rehearsed by senior games journalists, but I have long since levelled-up past this axiom and entered into a new world of benevolent narcissism. I always read the comments, for all commenters are my children. They exist to glorify and preserve me in my dotage. True, occasionally my children say things like "I think your writing and opinions are appalling, and that you deserve to be repeatedly run over by a herd of deer", but it is the nature of children to rebel. Read more Full Article comments
ga Some guy complained this fishing game only caters to queer players, so the dev added a "straight" title - it costs $9999 By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:36:16 +0000 When multiplayer fishing game Webfishing came out last month, it offered a relaxing hangout zone for cats and dogs. Everything revolves around catching, selling, and collecting the fish that gather in the rivers of a small island. It also lets you customise your character with clothing. Mostly simple hats and shorts, but some options let players celebrate their sexuality, such as a rainbow-adorned t-shirts, or titles that hang above your character which simply say "Trans" or "Bi". All this led one player to complain there was no "Straight" title. So, the developer added one. It costs 10 grand. Read more Full Article lamedeveloper Indie Sports PC Social Sandbox Webfishing
ga No Man's Sky has a Mass Effect Normandy again, together with new cross-save functionality By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:07:58 +0000 Back in the mists of 2021, No Man's Sky revealed its very own Normandy SR1 space frigate. "The Normandy in No Man's Sky?" you cry. "Why, that's a Mass Effect vessel. Some mistake here surely?" 1) My name's not Shirley, and 2) Indeed it is a Mass Effect ship, but HelloGames struck a time-limited deal with BioWare to create a version for their own space sim. "Blast, if only I'd noticed this at the time and acquired one," you mourn. "Ah, so many years I have wasted." Be of good cheer, my friend, for No Man's Sky has a Normandy once again, just in time for the latest N7 Day of assorted Mass Effect celebrations. For the next two weeks, you'll be able to get a-hold of it by way of a revised version of 2021's Beachhead Expedition. Tray-tray, away! Read more Full Article Nintendo Switch Indie Third person 505 Games Xbox Series X/S Action Adventure Single Player Xbox One PS4 No Man's Sky PS5 Simulation Hello Games Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Virtual Reality First person Mass Effect 5 Mac RPG
ga Sega are delisting over 60 'classic' games from Steam, including Crazy Taxi and Streets Of Rage By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:55:29 +0000 Sega are delisting several bundles of 'classic' games from digital stores, along with "select individual" games. On Steam specifically, this adds up to over 60 games in total, including several actual classics including the original Streets Of Rage trilogy, Crazy Taxi, and Jet Set Radio. The games will be removed on December 6th but will remain playable to those who already own them. Read more Full Article Nintendo GBA Third person Crazy Taxi Streets Of Rage 2 Single Player Arcade Acclaim Games Racing SEGA Corporation Android PS2 PS3 Empire Interactive Platformer Xbox 360 Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Side view iOS Sega BlitWorks Hitmaker SEGA of America Atari Jet Set Radio Hack & Slash
ga Roblox is limiting access to social hangouts and unrated games for children aged under 13 By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:48:30 +0000 Roblox is making changes in an attempt to keep younger players safe in the online platform. Beginning later this month, children under the age of 13 will no longer be able to search, discover or play unrated experiences within Roblox, and will be unable to access social hangout experiences. Read more Full Article Roblox Corporation First person Roblox Third person Virtual Reality Simulation Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative RPG Action Adventure Single Player Arcade Platformer
ga Sega sell off studio behind Endless Legend and Humankind as part of "restructuring" - but it goes to the original owners By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:31:01 +0000 Amplitude Studios, developers of many a game with "Endless" in the name, have split with publisher Sega to become independent again, with ownership of the studio reverting to its original founders and "other members of the team". The developers say everyone is parting "on good terms" and that the last eight years of getting published under Sega has been "amazing". But there are other businessy reasons, of course. Namely, Sega have been trying to trim down their European studios for the past year, and Amplitude is just the latest bunch of devs affected by that. Read more Full Article Indie Single Player Strategy: Grand Strategy/4X Humankind SEGA Corporation Simulation Endless Space 2 Endless Dungeon Strategy Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Bird view / Isometric Iceberg Interactive Endless Legend Shooter: Third Person Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy Sega AMPLITUDE Studios RPG
ga The Maw: what's new in PC games this week? By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000 Good news, everyone: I'm off work all this week. I know, I know - a whole seven days with zero Edwin bullshit. What a prospect. Allow yourself a moment to savour the idea. I'm so thrilled for you! The Maw, sadly, does not understand the concept of "time off". Its hunger is as constant as the tide, as unrelenting as my retreating hairline. So before I disappear into a beam of sunshine, here's this week's list of new PC game releases. Read more Full Article
ga The RPS 100: 2024 Edition is here, with our picks for the best PC games ever made By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:39:35 +0000 Update: The full list is now live as promised. The RPS 100 is our list of the best games to play on PC. It encompasses the full breadth and width of PC gaming stretching back to 1873, but focuses solely on those games that remain great to play today. It's updated yearly by our crack team of writers, and the first half of the 2024 edition is live now. Read more Full Article PSA The RPS 100 Blockbuster
ga How ten years of Game Maker’s Toolkit’s design analysis informed Mind Over Magnet By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0000 "A lot of puzzle games can leave you staring at the same static screen for ages, but here, I’m always pushing you forward," says Mark Brown of Game Maker’s Toolkit. For a decade now, Brown has been releasing accessible deep dives on game design for his popular YouTube channel, like "How Game Designers Protect Players From Themselves" and "The Two Types of Random in Game Design." This week, he’s releasing his own for the first time. Read more Full Article Puzzle Game Maker's Toolkit Mind Over Magnet PC Platformer
ga Escaping Harvey Weinstein was a ‘cat-and-mouse game,’ says Katherine Kendall By www.pbs.org Published On :: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 22:15:13 +0000 Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Let’s turn to the continuing fallout and reaction to the Harvey Weinstein story. Yesterday, Weinstein resigned from the board of his production company following numerous revelations of sexual harassment and several allegations of assault. More than three dozen women have said Weinstein harassed them. While Weinstein has admitted to behaving inappropriately, he has said he didn’t physically assault anyone. One of those women is Katherine Kendall. She was a 23-year-old actress who met Weinstein in 1993. She alleges that he invited her to his apartment in New York, where, she says, he took off his clothes and asked for a massage. As other actresses began coming forward about their painful experiences, she also went public with her own story. She joins me now from Los Angeles. First, thanks for joining us. And I don’t want to relive something that’s painful for you, but you are taking a public stance on it. For people who don’t know your story, what happened? KATHERINE KENDALL, Actress/ Photographer: Well, I was you know, a young actress, and I had had a formal meeting at the Miramax office earlier that day. And then, at the end of the meeting, which I thought went really well, he invited me to come to screenings. He said: “Welcome to the Miramax family. You know, come to premieres, screenings, et cetera. In fact, there’s one this afternoon. Would you like to come?” And I said, “Sure.” And I ended up going to see a movie with him. It ended up just being a movie, not a screening, but the film “Red Rock West.” And, you know, that’s right when I had this sort of sinking feeling that something wasn’t going right. And then, after the movie, we walked for a few blocks. And he said he needed to go up to his apartment to get something, and would I just come with him real quick? And I sort of said no, and we went back and forth on that for a minute. It was sort of a negotiation with him always, trying to sort of stand my ground, but then be convinced it was OK. I did go into his apartment. Once there, we talked for a long time about art and movies. And I felt like he was treating me like an intellect. And I felt like the meeting was going really well, and sort of continued. I didn’t feel unsafe once I was in there. And, at one point, then, he got up to go to the bathroom. And he came back in a robe and asked me to give him a massage. And I was extremely uncomfortable. And I was like, oh, God, no, I’m not comfortable with that. And we went back and forth on that. And then he went back to the bathroom again, and came back this time completely naked. And, you know, that changed it entirely for me, too. It just took it to the next place. It was completely disorienting. And I was scared, you know? I was really scared. And then it became sort of a cat-and-mouse game of, like, how am I going to get out of there? And I’m — it’s hard to make sense of what someone is trying to do to you when they’re fully naked, and they’re… HARI SREENIVASAN: Yes. KATHERINE KENDALL: You know, I’m 105 pounds. He’s a large man standing between me and the door. And, I mean, I felt very resolute, like, I will definitely get out of here somehow. But I’m not — I’m not sure — I’m not sure what’s going to happen here. You know, a lot was going through my head. And he said, well, if you won’t give me a massage, will you at least show me your breasts? And it was just — you know, it was, all in all, an extremely humiliating experience for me. And even though I got away, I felt like something had still — like something horrible had just happened to me. HARI SREENIVASAN: You know, in the immediate aftermath, did you tell someone about it? Because you have said before that you felt ashamed… KATHERINE KENDALL: I did. HARI SREENIVASAN: … even though you were the victim. KATHERINE KENDALL: I did. It’s really interesting how that happens. And I think — you know, I’m older now, and I have done some work on myself. And I have learned that a lot of people feel that way. It’s — it’s not — it wasn’t just me. But the just me feeling that this is my fault, this must have only happened to me, there’s something wrong with me, is so common when someone perpetrates against you. HARI SREENIVASAN: What were the… KATHERINE KENDALL: And I did. I told my mom. And I told some good friends. But, you know, one of the things that happened was, I didn’t want them to tell anybody. You know, people wanted to help me, but they didn’t know how, and I didn’t want them to try too hard, because I didn’t want it to backlash. I was scared. And I think that it’s important to remember that we don’t really come from a culture that supports women in talking about sexual harassment, in my — in my experience, that is. And, you know, I just haven’t felt like it was something I was going to get support on… HARI SREENIVASAN: You know, how long… KATHERINE KENDALL: … in the bigger picture. HARI SREENIVASAN: Yes. How long did this feeling last? Or, I guess, what are the longer-term ripple effects here? Did it shake your confidence in your abilities? KATHERINE KENDALL: I think it did. I think it did. I think it did. I think it made me feel like, wow, you know, that was a wash. He wasn’t interested at all in what I had to say, or, you know, he didn’t see any talent there or intellect there. He was assessing the situation the whole time for something else. And I think that — that did hurt. You know, I wish it didn’t. HARI SREENIVASAN: Yes. KATHERINE KENDALL: But he had produced so many movies that I thought were wonderful. And it was — it’s hard when someone has made art that you love, and how do you stay attached to liking their art, but feeling conflicted about them? And, yes, I think it does have long-term effects. I think you tuck it away. And then, for me, also, I realized that it came back when I would see his name or see him in person. I would start to sort of tremble all over again. I mean, I wouldn’t think about him on a daily basis or anything for years, and then I would see him, and I would think, oh, I don’t feel well. I got to get out of here. HARI SREENIVASAN: Right. KATHERINE KENDALL: You know, it would bring up so much emotion. And the most recent one was the woman in New York, the Italian model. I felt so, so enraged when I saw what happened there, and that they sort of — the police had him, and that then he got away. And then she was being dragged through the press as somebody who just, you know, wanted a payout, et cetera. HARI SREENIVASAN: You know, in the wake of that, there was — a friend of yours had tweeted, “At some point, all the women who have been afraid to speak out about Harvey Weinstein are going to have to hold hands and jump.” This was back in 2015. And from your Twitter account, you said, “Agreed.” It seemed like you almost had the opportunity to come forward. What made you want to come forward now? Has this become a turning point in the industry? KATHERINE KENDALL: This is a turning point. It’s a turning point. There are so many times when I thought about it, and then felt like — there were times when I thought about it and said, well, I have nothing to lose, I will just do it. And then I thought, I — I just didn’t have the strength or the courage yet. And I think somebody like Jodi Kantor doing the story for The New York Times, the fact that she thought it was a story at all was startling to me and made me feel like, wow, something is going to be done. And I knew she had told me — I mean, they were looking for women that this had happened to, because they’d been hearing rumors for so long that it happened to so many people. And she had told me other people were coming out. And I thought, I can’t — when I watched Rose McGowan or any of the other actresses come forward, I just — or Ashley Judd — I just thought, they look strong to me, and I don’t want to be the one that stays silent. HARI SREENIVASAN: Well, Katherine Kendall… KATHERINE KENDALL: I want to stand beside them. HARI SREENIVASAN: Katherine Kendall, thank you very much for speaking with us. And, hopefully, there are other people that are empowered by you coming forward. KATHERINE KENDALL: I hope so. Thank you. The post Escaping Harvey Weinstein was a ‘cat-and-mouse game,’ says Katherine Kendall appeared first on PBS NewsHour. Full Article harvey weinstein hollywood Katherine Kendall sexual harrasment
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