Normally on Wednesday I like to bring you some sort of gaming news. It’s usually not breaking anymore by the time I get to it, but I like to hope that a lot of it is interesting enough to comment on. This week is kind of slow news-wise, so instead I wanted to take second to talk about something that’s been bugging me about gaming news in general. To get right into it: don’t you think gaming news is often too…explosive?

I’m not talking about the usual trailers, announcements, teasers and such that help players learn about all the new stuff that’s coming out. Rather, I’m talking about all those people on Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and at the bigger news sites that always, without fail, manage to find something to blow up about. There’s always a “Starfield Pronoun” controversy, “Baldur’s Gate Character Creator” controversy, or whatever-else-have-you controversy that’s igniting the gaming-centric regions of the internet every week. It’s nuts!

I’m not saying that some of it doesn’t deserve to get called out, or that nobody should complain about anything (certainly I too have done more than my fair share of that). Rather, I mean that a lot of it isn’t worth the oceans of anger, outrage and vitriol they all seem to generate. If something is too much of a bother to ignore, then can’t one just not buy the offending game? Why do we need so many articles, posts, and videos adding fuel to the fire? Outrage should be a rarity, not a constant state of being.

Anyway, that’s all I wanted to say. It’s definitely important to call out wrongdoing in the industry, but it feels like we’re often wasting energy on stuff that really doesn’t matter and wearing ourselves out doing it.

How do you feel about all this?

Image from the Starfield Xbox Store page