15 Weirdest Gaming Stories From 2017

Awkward E3 pressers, the Ataribox, Half Life 2: Episode 3 - the year was full of odd developments.

Posted By | On 20th, Dec. 2017

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Another year, another buffet of gaming stories that range from the fantastical to the sombre. However, this year also had its fair share of bizarre happenings, from announcements and crazed rants to unusual mods and greedy yet incompetent publisher practices. Let’s take a look at 15 of the weirdest gaming stories from 2017.

Persona 5 Spoiler Bots

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When Persona 5 first released, Atlus was so gung-ho about preventing spoilers from leaking that it actually threatened content creators and streamers with account suspensions. To that end, someone created Twitter bots for Persona 5 to spoil the game should it ever be referenced on Twitter. This resulted in the official Persona 5 Twitter receiving spoilers every time “#Persona5” was used. Ah, justice.


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