10 WEIRD Gaming Stories of January 2022

January 2022 saw no shortage of wild and strange gaming news stories. Here are some of our favorite weird ones.

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[bkzach]

The one handed controller is freaking awesome and the guy deserves a lot of recognition for it. Also it is sadly true that a lot of people find their kids and "adult" kids spending huge amounts on micro transactions, my mother works for a bank gets calls about this at least once a week if not more

[mattyt]

I love this, 2 awesome moments in gaming this month between Hello Games re-releasing their game (honestly makes me want to buy their games just to support them) and the guy that made the 1 hand controller interface, so far this is a good month, let's hope we can get more and more positive gamer/gaming stories throughout the year

[PitchforkStudios]

Weird gaming stories is my most fav series from you guys. I look forward to this list more than others haha.

[HalfWarrior]

As a hemiplegic stroke survivor; the device for using one hand sounds awesome; as I can’t move my left hand at all.

[pichaelthompson]

That first one about the 18yr old buying $20, 000 in genshin, is so common over in Asia. Generally, you stick with your parents until you get a really good job or get married. I have cousins in Korea who are nearing their 40’s and they have never had a real job in their lives, live with their parents, and mooch money off them every day. And they spend their money solely on alcohol, games at the Internet cafe, and cigarettes. There’s a reason why I don’t speak to them.

[Optimusprime]

I had a feeling Tifa may be appearing on this list HAHA Definitely prime Weird gaming stories material, as you so rightly said.

[drewhalcro]

I knew a guy in school that had one functional hand. He said it was fortunate that the games he liked to play didn't require super fast reactions. I think he liked sport games like FIFA and such and he had a method where he would balance the controller to use the buttons he needed. The point is it's cool that a fully working controller can be used with one hand. I hope this gets adopted by the companies.

[mikewolf]

it is the fault of companies but also the parents for having their card info on 1 click buy with no authentication. i know how annoying it is to have to authorize every time you go to buy a game or something else but that authentication is there to protect you from not only hackers but from KIDS as well

[sgthop]

Hello Games has thoroughly redeemed themselves since the release of No Man's Sky. What a turnaround by a company.

[rukitomikutochi]

2:42
No corruption of Police you say?
The Officers actually tried to Justify their actions by claiming it to be a "Breach of Privacy" basically and they were caught in 4k.


Also, massive amounts of respect to Hello games.
That's honestly awesome.

[darkfire]

Thanks again for another great video, cause this is by far one of your best and my favorite series you guys do.

[SmashBrosmike]

I always wait eagerly for this month’s weird things, I enjoy these videos very much.

[SnuSnuDungeon]

Ah the first of the year Weird Gaming Stories ❤️

[abrealgaming]

Editors please use that meerkat more often at 11 minutes. It truly made my day.

[brianrosie]

It's on both the companies for pushing this gambling garbage and the parents for not educating their kids properly about it

[wutthabuck]

Imagine being in a government meeting
'So we need to discuss spending budgets, Chad what can u tell us?'
***Chad proceeds to play 4k video of his Final Fantasy with Tifa*** 🤣🤣🤣

[Forever_Zero]

There should be at least a limit of how much money you can spend on lootboxes within a certain amount of time, sure, people are free to spend their money in anyway they want, but no one should spend 20, 000 dollars on microtransactions for a videogames so quickly

[lizardguyNA]

The credit card one is making me consider how I'd teach kids about finance. That's where I am in life.

[worngspelling]

I saw someone posted that nsfw tifa clip at the italian senate on twitter and it was bloody awkward and hilarious. Poor tifa, square enix just wanted to make her less of a rule 34ish type of character by "nerfing" her outfit in the ff7 remake and then that happened

[Ki_Adi_Mundi]

That one kid's dad literally turned into Tom Nook when he went into debt...