Popular kids video game Roblox has become gathering space for pro-Palestinian protests
An Israeli parent warned that their child had seen a possible reenactment of Hamas' attack in the game
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Luc Bernard has spent 15 years trying to bring Holocaust education into the mainstream gaming space
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Fast Forward ‘The Sims’ video game adds Jewish foods, a longtime request of Jewish players
“The Sims team HAVE LISTENED and have finally brought Jewish food to The Sims 4!” tweeted a user who goes by HufflePom who had lobbied for the additions
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Fast Forward ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ video game renews criticism of antisemitic tropes in Harry Potter franchise
The villainous goblin characters are bankers with hook noses and use instruments resembling shofars
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Culture What happens when you turn the Holocaust into a video game?
Luc Bernard hopes his upcoming video game ‘The Light in the Darkness’ will help combat rising antisemitism in the gaming community and raise awareness among the young about the Shoah.
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Culture Kids love to play video games. So do white supremacists.
With little moderation, hate speech is rampant in games
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Culture ‘Sex with Hitler’ is a video game that, unfortunately, does exactly what it promises
Kink comes in all shapes and forms. But I still doubt that what you were hoping to do with your time was play a game featuring a very buff and oddly shiny Hitler as your sexual avatar. And yet. Unfortunately, “Sex with Hitler” dropped in late January on the gaming platform Steam, and is doing…
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Culture Wordle’s massively popular (Jewish) predecessors
Writer’s note: After an outpouring of love for the word game Jotto, this article has been updated. If you are one of the countless smartphone users currently beguiled by a five by six grid of letters, you may be interested to know about Wordle’s Jewish precursors. Before Twitter was lit up by rows of gray,…
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