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Capcom And SNK Appear To Race Replace Blue Mary In ‘Street Fighter 6’
Capcom and SNK appear to have race replaced SNK's Blue Mary character in a promotional trailer for Terry Bogard joining Capcom's Street Fighter VI. The official Street Fighter YouTube channel released a promo video for Fatal Fury's Terry Bogard that depicts what...
Ubisoft Executives Get Evasive After Investors Question Potential Low Sales For ‘Star Wars Outlaws’ And ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’
Ubisoft executives CEO Yves Guillemot and CFO Frédérick Duguet did their best to avoid questions from institutional investors regarding the company's potential sales for its upcoming games Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed Shadows. During the company's Q1 FY 2024...
Capcom Says It Has An Internal Quota To Increase Percentage Of Female Managers And Is Considering Hiring Non-Japanese Directors
Video game developer and publisher Capcom recently revealed the company has an internal quota to increase the percentage of female managers employed at the company and it is considering hiring non-Japanese directors. If you are unfamiliar with Capcom, the company...
Ubisoft Releases Statement To Japanese Players Amidst Massive Backlash To ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’
Video game publisher and developer Ubisoft released a statement to Japanese players amidst massive backlash to the company's upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game. Japanese players launched a petition at the end of June claiming the game "is a serious insult to...
Ubisoft’s Stock Plummets 12% Despite Exceeding Sales Targets
Ubisoft's stock plummeted 12% in the past five days following the company's most recent earnings reports that revealed it had exceeded sales targets for its first financial quarter of the year. Yahoo! Finance reports that the Ubisoft stock fell 12.42% in the last five...
‘SNK VS. CAPCOM SVC CHAOS’ Features Trigger Warning And A Censored Poster
A poster has been censored and a trigger warning has been added to the recently released SNK VS. CAPCOM SVC CHAOS, which is a remaster of the 2003 arcade game . X user YOG3NSHA revealed that a trigger warning was added to the game, positing it to X. It reads, "This...
Japanese Historian Claiming Yasuke Was A Samurai Revealed to Be Former Member of the Japanese Communist Party
Japanese historian Yu Hirayama who claims that Yasuke was a Samurai has been revealed to be a former member of the Japanese Communist Party. Hirayama made his claim on X where he wrote, "It seems like there's a lot of talk about Yasuke, a black man who served Oda...
Activists Attempt To Cancel ‘Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’ For Employing Russian Developer
A handful of activists are attempting to cancel Focus Entertainment and Saber Interactive's upcoming Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 for employing a Russian developer. In the wake of a nearly complete build of the game leaking online, Focus Entertainment and Saber...
Federal Trade Commission Accuses Xbox Of Inflicting “Consumer Harm” And “Product Degradation” After Massive Price Increases To Game Pass
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accuses Xbox Studios, Activision, and their parent company Microsoft of "consumer harm" and "product degradation" after the company jacked up prices for its Game Pass service and announced the discontinuation of Xbox Game Pass for...
‘Mortal Kombat’ And ‘Injustice’ Developer NetherRealm Shuts Down Mobile Team And Lays Off Dozens Of Employees
NetherRealm Studios, the developer behind the Mortal Kombat and Injustice games reportedly shut down its entire mobile team and laid off dozens of employees across the board. Tony Lazzara, who was a Quality Assurance Analyst at NetherRealm Studios announced he was...
Focus Entertainment And Saber Interactive Respond To Leak Of ‘Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’
Video game developer Saber Interactive and publisher Focus Entertainment responded to a recent leak of their upcoming game Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. As reported by Tom Henderson at Insider Gaming a playable build for the game was leaked online and clocks in at...
Japanese Political Aide Indicates ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Debacle Could Escalate Into “Diplomatic Incident”
A Japanese political aide indicated that the backlash to Ubisoft's upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game could escalate into a "diplomatic incident." As first reported by Mark Kern aka Grummz on X, a Japanese political aide detailed the game and its false depiction...