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Emese Szigetvári, commonly known as LadyFiszi online, is an artist who used to work on the Five Nights at Freddy's series, providing art for the games and several of the books. However, she has been involved in several controversies since 2019 regarding things such as transphobic comments, writing fanfictions involving pedophilia and sexual assault, grooming allegations, creating art and being a part of groups that glorify Nazism and Fascism, and tracing allegations. Eventually, it got to the point where the official r/fivenightsatfreddys subreddit moderators decided to ban her because of these allegations, drawing even further attention to them. This ultimately lead to Scott Cawthon officially firing LadyFiszi from the franchise on February 27, 2023.
Q*Bert co-creator Warren Davis, although highly grateful for the character's continued longevity, dislikes that modern portrayals of the character, such as those in Disney's Wreck-It Ralph, Adam Sandler's Pixels, and the Q*Bert: Rebooted game make his nose "flaccid".
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A year before Everybody 1-2-Switch's announcement, an article was released on Fanbyte detailing the turbulent process of its development, where it tested so poorly with test groups that there were fears that it'd harm Nintendo's reputation, and localisation staff would nickname the game "Horseshit" after its' host, Horace the Horse.
There is a rumor that claims that Rob Paulsen, the voice actor who provided the voice for Bubsy in Bubsy 2, Bubsy in: Fractured Furry Tales, and the 1993 Bubsy cartoon pilot hated the character and regretted taking the gig. However, Paulsen has stated that he does not regret his role in the Bubsy franchise and would do the voice again for future Bubsy projects if paid to.
A common internet rumor, typically pushed by Nintendo fans upset over rival console manufacturer Microsoft's purchase of former Nintendo collaborator Rare, is that Kinect Sports and Kinect Sports: Season Two were mandated by Microsoft, and were not something that employees of Rare wanted to work on. According to Yooka-Laylee creative lead Gavin Price, this was not true, claiming:
"Phil Spencer taking the mantle of Xbox is one of the best things that could have happened for Rare. Because he’s always said to people at Rare [as general manager of Microsoft Studios], ‘Do what you want to do and we’ll back you,’ and he’s always stayed true to his word in that regard. It was people in Rare’s management at the time who said: ‘Well, Kinect is a great opportunity for the studio – go all in on it.’ So when executives at Microsoft see that the management team are passionate about doing that, they back them. Microsoft to their credit did that, and perhaps the story online isn’t quite reflective of the truth."
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During the heyday of Creatures' fandom, a user nicknamed "AntiNorn", a late US Army officer, started posting videos of Norns (the pets featured in the game, which were coded in a manner more closely resembling the human brain than a regular pet simulator game) being abused as a counter-cultural response to the Creatures community favoring idealized fan content that ignored or removed elements of conflict or danger from the game.
AntiNorn provided an abused Norn called "Slave" for visitors to download and import into their games, which horrified certain members of the Creatures fandom. While many players downloaded Slave with the intention of protecting her, she turned out to have a fear of the player character, which she named "God". She had also been trained to eat poisonous weeds as food, could fall unconscious out of sheer stress, and was too frail to live a particularly long life.
Some players did manage to rehabilitate Slave and allow her to live a full life, but AntiNorn later revealed that he had her DNA genetically modified to produce alcohol in her bloodstream, meaning that if players had bred Slave, their entire Norn lineage would be contaminated with perpetually drunken Norns. The response to this was immense and fierce, to the point of AntiNorn receiving graphic death threats, castration threats, plans to inject his eyeballs with hydrogen peroxide, accusations of him being a demon, and descriptions of acid etching his entrails.
Following this, AntiNorn would start a website called "Tortured Norns", which contained more provoking downloadable content including cocaine pipes for Norns, recipes made from Norn babies, and a Norn wired to associate reward with punishment and therefore only able to experience pain.
MissingNo, a glitched Pokémon from the Generation I Pokémon games, at one point appeared as a Poké Ball summon in Super Smash Flash 2. It would cover the screen with a fake Microsoft Windows Blue Screen of Death.
This character was removed due to its attack being too convincing and fooling full-screen players into thinking their game actually crashed, as well as MissingNo not officially being a canonical Pokémon.
One of the secret playable characters in LEGO The Incredibles is the mascot of Pixar, Luxo Jr. - however, he is only referred to as "Junior". This is due to the character being named after the lamp company Luxo, which sent a cease and desist to Disney in 2009 following the announcement of a box set for the movie Up containing a replica Luxo Jr. lamp.
Scott Cawthon retired from game development in 2021 after it was discovered that he had donated thousands of dollars to anti-LGBTQ+ Republican political candidates. Cawthon posted a message to his fans on his website stating:
"I've had a blessed, fulfilling, and rich career. I've been shown great kindness and I've tried to show great kindness in return. I've tried to make some good games (let the debate ensue), and I've witnessed the creation of possibly the most creative and talented fanbase on the planet. [...] I realize that I miss a lot of things that I got to focus on before FNaF became such a success. I miss making games for my kids, I miss doing it just for fun, and I miss making RPGs even though I stink at it. All of this to say that I am retiring."
He also stated that he would be choosing someone that he trusts to take over the FNaF franchise. Cawthon later removed this message from his website, has not announced a successor for the franchise, and appears to still have complete control over it. In 2023, Cawthon released the first game since announcing his retirement, Freddy in Space 3: Chica in Space, as a supposed tie-in to the "Five Nights at Freddy's" movie from that year.
Carmageddon was the subject of a major backlash from the British tabloid press for its violent content, with one issue of The Daily Mail running a large headline reading "BAN DEATH GAME NOW: POPE". If one was to read the smaller text below the headline, they would find out that the "Pope" in question was Greg Pope, Member of Parliament for Hyndburn, Lancs (1992 to 2010), and not Pope John Paul II as the headline would imply.
According to several Amazon customer reviews for the game, Heathcliff: Frantic Foto contains a glitch that hardlocks the game cartridge after passing Level 34. Replacement copies were reportedly provided to players who complained, but only made another four stages playable before the game hardlocks again.
The late Michael Berlyn, who created Bubsy, has claimed that the designer of Bubsy 2, Cyndi Kirkpatrick, vehemently hated Bubsy to the point of sticking pencils through the heads of rare promotional Bubsy dolls, hanging them from nooses and covering them in fake blood. Berlyn claimed this hatred affected the quality of the final game for him in that "the art wasn't quite right, the feeling wasn't quite right, and they did some weird things with the secondary characters, and the biplanes, you know, nothing really worked for me."
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This is the first Leisure Suit Larry game that had no involvement with series creator Al Lowe. According to Lowe, the game was nothing like the original series that he created. He even criticized that it was announced as a 'Leisure Suit Larry' title when Larry Laffer (the main character from the original series) himself wasn't the main character, the mini games that were in it, and the fact it wasn't an 'adventure game' like the other games of the series:
"It is not Larry 8! Even though VU [Vivendi Games] calls it a "Leisure Suit Larry game," Leisure Suit Larry's only role is a cameo as the "help voiceover." It is not an adventure game. There are no real puzzles, no interactive dialog, no narrator, no character development, and nearly no plot. Much of the dialog is uninspired and trite. There's more profanity in the first scene than in all the previous Larry games combined. Women cuss like sailors. The "F" word is repeated so often the writers must have used a macro. The plentiful load screens show cheesy photographs of average-looking college-aged women who don't look sexy, but rather, ill-at-ease!
The protagonist is a loser named Larry who has trouble scoring with women. The game works hard, usually too hard, to reference earlier Larry games. Like Larry Laffer, it seems to desperately want to fit in. The animation is 3D and wonderfully jiggly. (Actually, "pendulous" would be a better word; most of these breasts are too large to jiggle.) There's some humorous dialog. And it's more than bawdy enough.
But… All this ignores the glaring disaster of those damned mini-games! They're distracting, repetitive, and boring. Who wants to play lame arcade games that wouldn't be fun even on a GameBoy? Not even this game's giant breasts are worth this slog. MCL is definitely unlike the other Larry games.
Those who seek 3D boobs, profanity, and fart jokes will be pleased. Those who fondly remember my games will be severely disappointed."
Lowe later stated that playing Manga Cum Laude felt like "receiving a video from my son's kidnappers.":
"On one hand, you're glad he's still alive but its like, 'Oh God, what are they doing to him!' And it just pained me to watch it happen. You know I put ten years of my life into that guy and he was very good to me."
As a backer reward for the game's Kickstarter, backers had the option to provide a message to appear in-game on a memorial stone. One of the in-game memorial stones in the final version of the game had its message later changed due to it being considered by many as a hateful, transphobic joke.
A number of people were against the change, but Obsidian decided to have the messaged altered. The original message by the backer read:
"Firedorn Lightbringer Here lies Firedorn, a hero in bed. He once was alive, but now he's dead. The last woman he bedded, turned out a man. And crying in shame, off a cliff he ran."
After receiving numerous complaints from gamers about the quote, CEO of Obsidian, Feargus Urquhart, chose to change it and together with the backer who created it, decided on a new message.
"Here lies Firedorn, a bard, a poet He was also a card, but most didn't know it A poem he wrote in jest was misread They asked for blood, so now he's just dead."
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In June 2023, a patch was released that altered and censored elements deemed insensitive and exploitative by Hidden Variable Studios, Future Club, and Autumn Games. This update was widely negatively received by fans and resulted in a review bomb on Steam lasting several days, gradually causing the Recent Reviews quality marker to dip into "Overwhelmingly Negative" until all reviews since the update's release were eventually frozen from the game's overall reception by Steam in response. Many of the fan reviews called the changes both a form of censorship and removal of paid content, and included, but are not limited to:
• The removal of in-universe allusions to real world hate groups and upskirt shots of teenage fighters. • Toning down depictions of racial violence and other sexually suggestive content in the story. • Deleting or altering several illustrations from the guest art gallery. • The removal of several voice lines, most notably the Real Soviet Announcer voice pack due to previous allegations and ongoing lawsuits between Future Club and Mike Zaimont, the pack's voice actor and Skullgirls' former lead designer/programmer. This voice pack's removal especially drew criticism for previously being promoted as a $700,000 stretch goal during the 2013 "Keep Skullgirls Growing" Indiegogo campaign.
Current game director Charley Price stated that the updates were made in order to "reflect the values and broad vision for Skullgirls moving forward".
Upon release, many streamers criticized the game for giving the option for the player to choose their pronouns in the creation menu. Similarly, a player on Twitter criticized the game for allowing a male NPC, Sam Coe, to flirt with a male player character. In response, Elias Toufexis, the voice actor for Coe, clarified that the character was played as bisexual.
In 2020, after Nintendo sent a cease & desist to the major Super Smash Bros. tournament The Big House for using emulated Slippi netplay in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, participants in an official Splatoon 2 tournament collectively changed their tags to include the phrase "#FreeMelee". Shortly after, Nintendo would cancel the tournament, with their statement simply pertaining to "unexpected executional challenges".
In response to this, the Splatoon community hosted their own tournament in tribute to The Big House, titled "The Squid House" - this would end up becoming the biggest Splatoon series tournament to date, attracting 7,000 viewers and raising $28,000 USD, with $3,000 going to charity while the rest went to the participants.
In 2022, Logan McPherson, the director of the animated series "Sonic Prime", stated that the show was canon to the games, drawing upon their existing mythology. This would make Sonic Prime the first television series based on the Sonic franchise to be considered canon to the mainline series. Ian Flynn would further support this claim, revealing that he knew when exactly in the series timeline the show took place in, but would not reveal it until after the show ends, while noting that something happens in the show to make it clear that it is indeed canon to the games. In 2024, after the release of Sonic Prime's third and final season, Ian Flynn finally confirmed the show's status in the overall Sonic timeline: aside from taking place sometime after the events of Sonic Advance 3, the show's placement is considered moot due to the ending Spoiler:having the show wipe itself out. In response to complaints regarding this outcome, Flynn claimed that its placement in the canon was intentionally vague, and the show being canon to the games at all was not his decision due to only being involved in the animated series as a consultant. He later claimed that he and other parties had made efforts to flag the show's inconsistencies early on in production, but that many of these efforts were flat out ignored. He noted that there was not an easy way to brush these issues aside, but also made a point that there was an effort to do so.
MissingNo, a glitched Pokémon from the Generation I Pokémon games, at one point appeared as a Poké Ball summon in Super Smash Flash 2. It would cover the screen with a fake Microsoft Windows Blue Screen of Death. 
Scott Cawthon retired from game development in 2021 after it was discovered that he had donated thousands of dollars to anti-LGBTQ+ Republican political candidates. Cawthon posted a message to his fans on his website stating:
Carmageddon was the subject of a major backlash from the British tabloid press for its violent content, with one issue of The Daily Mail running a large headline reading "BAN DEATH GAME NOW: POPE". If one was to read the smaller text below the headline, they would find out that the "Pope" in question was Greg Pope, Member of Parliament for Hyndburn, Lancs (1992 to 2010), and not Pope John Paul II as the headline would imply.
As a backer reward for the game's Kickstarter, backers had the option to provide a message to appear in-game on a memorial stone. One of the in-game memorial stones in the final version of the game had its message later changed due to it being considered by many as a hateful, transphobic joke.
