This reminds me way too much of the debate over “remastering” SNES soundtracks after the original sound sources were found.

This is an amazing comment. Thank you so much.

Erm, it says in the same paragraph, “And it is very little fun to play.” And then dedicates paragraphs to saying why. It’s weird you missed that.

I was very conscious of this as I wrote. I’m an old-fashioned leftie, and I’m delighted by the more progressive direction in which gaming is heading, while very aware that it still abundantly caters for those so terrified by the thought of being kind to people who don’t look like them.

That’s what happens when capitalist companies co-opt social struggles: they adopt the look and feel without ever dipping into what makes those matters so important. It’s mere window-dressing and cynical pandering to the expectations of an audience whose values have changed over time. If it reminds you of Ubisoft and…

I’m all for it when games or other media shed ligthts on minority groups that were overlooked in history. BF1's protrayal of the Harlem Hellfighters is a choice I can get behind.

It’s also not something that everything has to address. You can tell a story about WWII that has real depth and meaning without dealing with the social ills of the time.

This is my problem with the push for diversity in games.

It spreads fear of Islamic people because, when things like this happen, people sometimes get killed over it. That doesn’t make it islamophobic, though.

If it were pages from a Christian bible no one would give a shit

Oh no a game about ultraviolence with washed out nazi history about reanimated literal SS officers has Quaran pages #gamingnews 

Was this rude and culturally insensitive? Absolutely. Does it need to be there? Nope. Should it be removed and apologized for? Yep.

“Imagine if something you invented was stolen from you and then marketed and sold to customers around the world.”

Mental health is a much more complex issue then just telling people to seek help. If only it were so simple. 

No it won’t be.

This isn’t an Easter egg monument for Primal. The game’s island is based of Cuba and this is a real amusement park in Cuba.

Specifically, it is a Woolly Rhinoceros, commonly depicted in Paleolithic cave art, and believed to have gone extinct along with other megafauna, towards the end of the last ice age.

I don’t think it’s a generational problem, it’s more a... lack of education problem.

And an exhibit of some humans spearing...uhh, look, I’ll be honest, I’m not sure what the heck that creature is:

For the same reason that nazi host bar in Osaka was written about here. It’s Kotaku East, and this is some mildly amusing story that happens to come from Taiwan.