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Nintendo to patch ‘bug’ that allows for same-sex couples in 3DS game
Nintendo Co. Ltd. has removed a “bug” from the Nintendo 3DS title, Tomodachi Collection: New Life, which allowed players to create same-sex couples in the game.

Players noticed this was an option when they began to migrate their virtual Mii avatars from the Nintendo Wii U to the portable version of the game.

In a statement issued by Nintendo and translated by Kotaku, the Japanese company says the patch is meant to fix a number of problems in the game, among them “human relations that become strange.”

Twitter users have already shown their disdain for Nintendo’s move to fix what many users had considered a feature of the game.

Can playing more games improve your life and save the world?

By Christine Pellegrini

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Adventure Time to receive sequel and Regular Show get its first game

By Matthew O’Mara

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New Pokémon X and Y details: Customizable characters and Pokémon you can ride

By Matthew O’Mara

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Sexism in games documentary ‘GTFO’ gains support through Kickstarter

By Chad Sapieha

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Ubisoft Montreal’s Watch Dogs revels in uncovering the moral grey zone

We get a hands on look at Ubisoft’s next potential blockbuster. 

By Chad Sapieha
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Electronic Arts severing ties with gun manufacturers, but not their guns
In the midst of the United States’ bitter national debate on gun violence, gun manufacturers and videogame makers are delicately navigating one of the more peculiar relationships in American business.

Violent “first-person shooter” games such as “Call of Duty” are the bread and butter of leading video game publishers, and authenticity all but requires that they feature brand-name weapons.

Electronic Arts licensed weapons from companies like McMillan Group International as part of a marketing collaboration for “Medal of Honor: Warfighter.” Activision Blizzard gives “special thanks” to Colt, Barrett and Remington in the credits for its “Call of Duty” titles.

Rifles by Bushmaster, which made the gun used in the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting last December, have appeared in the hugely popular “Call of Duty.”

Yet, in the wake of the Newtown shooting, the biggest advocate for gun ownership, the National Rifle Association, took aim at videogames to explain gun violence. One week after 20 schoolchildren and six adults were killed in the shooting, NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre called the videogame industry “a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people.” 

Now at least one game maker, the second largest by revenue in the United States, is publicly distancing itself from the gun industry, even as it finds ways to keep the branded guns in the games. (AP Photo/Electronic Arts Inc.)

I spent $250 on plastic video game people and soon you will, too!
I decided early on that my family would skip the whole Skylanders thing.
In case you’ve somehow managed to bypass this particular gaming phenomenon, Activision-Blizzard Inc.’s Skylanders is a series of kids’ action games that merges the virtual world with the physical by having players transport actual plastic figurines into the game via a portal accessory.

Oh, and did we mention that most of those plastic figurines will cost you about $10 (and up) and are sold separately?

It brings a costly new meaning to the “gotta catch ‘em all” concept. As many parents have discovered, the families of avid fans can easily spend hundreds of dollars on just this one game and its related toys.

Warner Bros, 5th Cell Media face lawsuit from feline memes Nyan Cat, Keyboard Cat

By Matthew O’Mara

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