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"Blizzard had the opportunity to bring the world together in a tough Hearthstone esports moment a month ago, and we did not"

"This is a stain on the games sector"

"We respect developers’ desire to express themselves"

"This was not about being edgy, I very much regret to have done it in the first place"

Entirely manufactured controversy stirred by white supremacist website

PQube’s religious-themed 2D brawler Fight of the Gods has been causing chaos over in Malaysia. The game, which launched on Steam Early Access last week, sees religious and mythological figures such as Jesus, Moses, Odin, Athena and Anubis battling each other for supremacy as they fight an unknown evil. Firstly,the …

Take-Two chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick has downplayed any suggestion that the criticism of Evolve’s DLC has damaged the title’s commercial prospects. You’re right, there was some controversy start-up by an online post,” he told Benchmark Company’s Mike Hickey in an investor earnings call transcribed by Seeking Alpha. And I …

Valve has pulled Destructive Creation’s controversial title Hatred from Steam’s Greenlight pages, expressing concern that it doesn’t fit the company’s publishing standards. The game was pulled earlier today, just a few hours after it launched on the Greenlight service. A post from Destructive Creations shares a portion of the message …

Nintendo’s refusal to revisit the heterosexual marriage requirement in 3DS game Tomodachi Life has caused an eruption of criticism across the internet. The platform holder on Wednesday said that it would not bow to pressure to patch in the ability for players of the quirky life-sim to marry others of …

The EU Commission must talk to UK games firms before taking drastic action against the controversial free-to-play business model, says UKIE. The microtransation model has come under fire in recent months, facing accusations of misleading customers, particularly children, over the real cost of ‘free’ games. It sparked an investigation by …