The whiplash of covering Summer Game Fest 2025 in LA

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Image of Summer Game Fest circular banner with attendees walking successful  the foreground.

I emotion going to Summer Game Fest. It's a uncommon accidental to link with my colleagues and friends successful person, arsenic good arsenic perceive to developers speech astir wherefore they marque their games. In immoderate ways, this year's SGF gave maine everything I emotion astir the event. But portion I was comfortably ensconced successful a blessed bubble, the escalating struggle betwixt demonstrators protesting against migration raids and the Los Angeles Police Department formed a acheronian and soul-shaking pall that could not beryllium ignored.

Everything started connected June 6th, erstwhile it was reported that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had conducted a raid successful LA's manner district, the aforesaid country wherever astir of SGF was being held. I wasn't astir to acquisition that due to the fact that I was astatine the YouTube Theater successful Inglewood, California, watching Geoff Keighley denote a Game of Thrones RTS and a Wu-Tang game. But erstwhile Ian Proulx, Splitgate 2 creator and CEO of 1047 Games, came retired with his now-infamous "Make FPS Great Again" hat, it punctured the illusion of region successful time, space, and tone.

Image of Ian Proulx, the CEO of 1047 Games wearing a achromatic  chapeau  that reads Make FPS Great Again.

In the months since President Donald Trump took office, ICE has ramped up its activities, sending agents to snatch parents from their children an …

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