The forced DEI in Assassins Creed Shadows doesn’t end with Yasuke. (Is “forced DEI” an oxymoron?) Yesterday, the trailer for Assassins Creed Shadows revealed that the two lead characters in the game – which is set in 1500s Japan and is about the samurai and shinobi (ninjas) – were a blac...
Read MoreToday, Ubisoft released a trailer for Assassins Creed Shadows, the next game in the seventeen-year-old video game franchise. But instead of getting gamers excited, it got them laughing at the latest ridiculous instance of forced diversity, which involves a big historical reach. Then, it stopped bein...
Read MoreAs if you thought this might just go away. At Amazon’s upfront presentation in New York (via Deadline), Jen Salke, the head of Amazon and MGM Studios, revealed that Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Tomb Raider show has been given a series order. The show was announced as being in development over a year ...
Read MoreHow big a failure was Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League? According to a recent Warner Bros. earnings call (via Video Games Chronicle), it was big enough to sink their entire financial quarter. During the call, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav blamed the “decrease in revenue” on the d...
Read MoreIf you’re a fan of Tinkerbell, I regret to inform you that you will no longer be able to meet her at Disney World. Tinkerbell never returned to the Town Square Theater at the Magic Kingdom (a location she shares with Mickey Mouse) when Disney reopened their parks after being shut down due to COVID...
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 ...
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