UPDATE: The screenshot posts from Kotaku writer Alyssa Mercante below were specifically about Saavy|Artist asking Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt some questions, and Pilestedt answering them and thanking her for being polite in her discourse. It’s unclear whether this happened before or after Sony�...
Read MoreThe Helldivers 2 controversy just started, and it’s already gotten more heated than the one over Stellar Blade. A lot has happened in a couple of days, with both Sony and the gamers it insulted volleying at each other. But don’t worry; this one has a happy ending. Here’s the rundown. First,...
Read MoreIs Sony determined to ruin every popular game it releases? It’s starting to look like it, between their censorship of Stellar Blade (well, details are scarce, likely due to non-disclosure agreements, but it’s almost certainly their doing) and now their pie in the face to Helldivers 2 fans. If ...
Read MoreThe backlash over recent woke gaming moves is massive. The first example is Warhammer 40K, which not only introduced female Custodes to the tabletop game’s lore but told fans who knew better that there were always female Custodes, which was just begging for the deluge of George Orwell invocations ...
Read MoreAs gamers react to the censored version of Stellar Blade, Shift Up CEO Kim Hyeong-tae and technical director Lee Dong-gi answered some questions about their game’s release, and inevitably, the costume change came up. Kim Hyeong-tae explained it like this (translation via packergirl, and I’m grat...
Read MoreThe Stellar Blade battle isn’t over, and distributor Sony has taken sides against its customers. Yesterday, reports came in that the highly-anticipated video game from South Korean developer Shift Up had censored some of the more revealing outfits worn by its lead character, Eve. Stellar Blade ...
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