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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Producer Explains Why The Game Doesn’t Have Gender Restrictions

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has recently released on Switch, and many players are praising the game for its flexible position on gender identity--it never asks you to confirm a gender, and lets you use any hair, make-up, and clothing on any body, which was not the case with previous games in the series. Now, in a new interview with The Washington Post, the game's producer Aya Kyogoku has explained the game's relaxed stance on identifying and restricting gender.Kyogoku says that the decision is "not just about gender," but a wider

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Was A “Scary” Project For Square Enix

The second episode in Square Enix's "Inside Final Fantasy VII Remake" docuseries reveals that reimagining the classic 1997 title for modern PS4 players was a "scary" undertaking for the team.Longtime series writer Kazushige Nojima, alongside some other prominent Square Enix developers like director Motomu Toriyama and producer Yoshinori Kitase, spoke at length about the development behind the story and characters of FFVII Remake. Nojima said that while he's glad the 20-plus-year-old story still resonates with players, he was nervous about tackling the challenge of remaking the game."I do have a

MLB The Show 20 review: An admirable stand-in for the real thing

Like just about every other professional or amateur spectator sport in the United States, Major League Baseball chose to pre-emptively postpone the start of the 2020 season due to concerns about the current coronavirus pandemic that has put the globe into a holding pattern. Thanks to some fortunate timing, the folks over at Sony’s SIE San Diego Studio just delivered the latest version of their long-running baseball simulation, MLB The Show, to digital store shelves. Fortunately for baseball fanatics and those looking for an enticing distraction from mandated or self-imposed

MLB The Show 20 Review – Bases Loaded

MLB The Show 20 suddenly finds itself in an unprecedented position. The COVID-19 coronavirus has disrupted sports across the globe, and baseball is no different, as Opening Day of the 2020 Major League Baseball season was recently postponed for at least the next two months--and even that seems optimistic. It's an unfathomable turn of events, yet it also means Sony San Diego's latest baseball sim is now one of the only ways to experience the 2020 season of America's favorite pastime. It's a good job, then, that MLB 20 maintains

Netflix’s Beastars Review: Like Zootopia, But Hornier And Better

The first season of Beastars arrived on US Netflix on March 13, and it's the anime that everybody should be watching. Combining the holy powers of both horniness and genuine thoughtfulness about identity, sexuality, and society, Beastars lays out both a cerebral and emotional treat over the course of 12 episodes.But first: Yes, Beastars is that series openly embraced by furries across the internet, and Netflix acknowledged it as so by calling furries to the frontlines for the US release of Beastars. If you're a furry or a curious individual,

Stairway to Badass: The Making and Remaking of Doom

Doom has devoured productivity and personal relationships since id Software opened the floodgates to hell in 1993. Gatekeepers of the franchise's past, present, and future celebrate the weapons and level design that defined the classics, the pitfalls and triumphs involved in revitalizing the brand, and the community that keeps old-school fans knee-deep in new ideas. Read Table of Contents Source: https://www.shacknews.com/article/99662/stairway-to-badass-the-making-and-remaking-of-doom

A Note From GameSpot About The Novel Coronavirus

The novel coronavirus' impact is widespread, affecting work, public events, travel, schools, and much more. Most importantly, it's having a real impact on people's lives--their health, their livelihood, their relationships. Its impact is being felt within our industry as major gaming events are canceled, movies delayed, and productions postponed, at a time when so many of us are turning to games, movies, and TV to help keep our spirits up and to stay connected.At GameSpot, we always aim to give you, our audience, the best and most comprehensive coverage of

The internet changed gaming forever. How’s player support keeping up?

“Gaming has changed,” I thought to myself as I slowly maneuvered past the young cosplayers crowding the halls at Gamescom, the largest gaming conference in Europe for players and industry professionals.I thought back to my childhood, and the games I grew up with. Mario and Sonic were still present, I could still find Street Fighter and Fallout merchandise, and FIFA 20 was, somewhat expectedly, huge. But that was pretty much it — the gaming universe I used to know, tucked in between massive displays of games I’ve never heard of.

Malmö, Sweden — Global Gaming vinner stort i iGB Affiliate Awards (English version follows)

Global Gaming har cementerat sin position som en av spelbranschens snabbast växande affiliate program efter att ha fått titeln Best Non-English Affiliate Program i iGB Awards 2019. Experterna i domarpanelen blev imponerade över Global Gaming Affiliates – som marknadsför Global Gamings huvudvarumärke, Ninja Casino – och deras framgång sedan lanseringen förra året. Med fokus på att bygga nära partnerskapsrelationer, införde Global Gaming Affiliates under 2018 ett sjuklönsinitiativ (s.k. Sick Pay) som är helt utan motstycke i branschen. Enligt anordningen kan affiliate partners få upp till tre månaders provision, beräknad på