The failed former Editor In Chief of The Escapist magazine, Nick Calandra, accused Mark Kern of being a fraud in a recent frenzy of X posts, joining forces with failed cam-girl Alyssa Mercante, now a senior editor at Kotaku, to defend Sweet Baby Inc.’s “honour.” Failed former EIC of The Escapist, Nick Calandra, took aim at Mark Kern (Grummz) and his video game in development Em-8ER when he posted a long thread purportedly “exposing” Mark Kern as a fraud: “I think my favorite thing about Mark Kern is that his third failed game, Em-8ER, has an option to buy “founder’s packs” for up to $1500 (!). His little army that wants him to be the savior of games would milk them for all the money they’ve got. Source!”
Nick Calandra implies that Mark Kern being opposed to DEI “consultancy” companies like Sweet Baby Inc. is simply a way to create outrage and secure more funding for his game: “Let’s keep going shall we? They’re still accepting money, seems there’s about four people working on the project, and they’re very focused on revamping the website… due to increased attention. You might think he’s using all this Twitter outrage to find a way to get funding.”
In a long post Mark Kern responded to the criticism on X: “…Em-8ER is an incredible project, my passion project, that is going to be in that sweet spot in AA. It has had ups and downs, my health and my family’s heath being part of it (much better now), and we have been in the middle of a relaunch. During this time, months ago, we turned off all backer packs as I don’t feel comfortable selling packs until we relaunch the project.
We do not sell packs to any newcomers (we do, 2 days of every month, offer a limited window for existing backers to upgrade if they wish). We are 100% crowd funded because I believe we must be free of DEI money like venture capital and AAA publisher money. Our backers agree. We’re also looking at opening up our custom-made funding platform to other games, so that the Patreons of the world can’t cancel them, and gamers can be connected to great DEI free projects and creators, games, mods and possibly tabletop….”
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To support his spurious allegations that Mark Kern is a fraud, failed former EIC of The Escapist, Nick Calandra pointed out that Mark Kern’s game has been in development for the past 7 years and raised over $100,000.
What failed former EIC of The Escapist, Nick Calandra disingenuously fails to mention is that video games can take years to develop, with massive teams and costs hundreds of millions. The huge Rocksteady flop, which co-indecently made use of Sweet Baby Inc.’s narrative consultancy “services,” has been in development since at least 2012 at a rumoured cost of over $200 million.
Let us know in the comments whether failed former EIC of The Escapist, Nick Calandra, exposed himself to a defamation suit.
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Nick Calandra is an evil terrorist.
And the irony is that it is all under under the guise “reasonableness” and “objectivity”
I like how none of these clowns can ever shut up, exposing themselves one after another. They are compelled to virtue signal for easy identification.
Like Pavlov’s dog they just can’t resist
Wow, that’s a new low for Nick.
He’s going even further, rallying all his followers to dig up dirt on Mark
“Own community calling it a scam on Reddit / Youtube.”
If I got a nickel every time someone claimed to be bear/Ilk but was now bravely turning on Owen/Vox on those platforms, I think I could get a small coffee.
I don’t think this courageous journalist did much vetting of those claims of community. Libel laundering.
Exactly, and as Vox would say, either they never were, or they haven’t learned anything, so good riddance.
Hey, Nick. Alyssa Mercante still won’t sleep with you.
He won’t believe you