Similar to ‘sports washing’, video games are increasingly funded by regimes with abysmal track records. You will also need an OS, with the most popular ones for gaming being Windows, the first version of which Bill Gates liberally copied from Apple (itself lifting the mouse input from Xerox), and which rose to dominance in part thanks to some extremely anti-competitive behaviour.īlizzard renamed Overwatch character McCree after his namesake was implicated in the ‘Cosby Suite’ scandal.Įven if a developer has a reputable public-facing presence, following the money can show that they’re funded by less than amazing organisations and governments.
These are also fabricated in China and also in Taiwan where the death penalty is still in use, and the country is a primary destination for children trafficked for sexual exploitation. Your console includes gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, nick, cobalt, tin, zinc, all of which need to be mined, causing devastation to the natural landscape and pollution.Īll of the above also applies to PCs, and you’re going to need a graphics card from either Nvidia or AMD to game competently. A spate of suicides linked to low pay at the “Foxconn City” industrial park in Shenzhen, China, has been widely reported alongside several additional suicides at various other Foxconn-owned locations and facilities in Mainland China.
Foxxconn is one of the production partners often used by console manufacturers.
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