A games journalist stirred up controversy this week when she made the laughable claim that men don’t like playing as female characters, using some of the most popular video game franchises as examples. We discuss the very predictable fallout from this strawman in addition to people overreacting to making Cyberpunk 2077 characters romanceable, New York Times reporting on screen addiction, a Mortal Kombat 11 competitor being banned over nothing, an Italian board game developer being canceled over out-of-context comments, and more.
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