The promised backlash has already begun since the information about Leavitt's history came to light on Friday, with fans already expressing concern about his involvement with Hogwarts Legacy on gaming forums, but all of that is to be expected. What's most interesting about the story as it stands is that WB Games knew that Leavitt had a history of controversial views and decided to hire him anyway, in click the up coming site full knowledge that the Harry Potter fanbase is particularly sensitive to this sort of controversy in the wake of Rowling's transphobia . It seems to be a case of what Admiral Grace Hopper, pioneering computer scientist and one of the most influential women in history, once said: " It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permissio

Hogwarts Legacy still has a lot to share, and it has only been just announced, but looking at what is known provides clues into its future. The game may very well be an MMO, but at as of right now it looks to be a mix of multiplayer and single-player, emphasizing personal customization and jolly cooperation. With the game slated for release in 2021, which is just around the corner, fans will not have to wait long to find

Boycotting Hogwarts Legacy to the point where its sales suffer significantly would most likely hurt individuals in the short-term. But there's no getting around the fact that buying it would continue to support Rowling, who has a louder, more influential voice than all of them and will continue to be influential if her brand remains popular. For fans who want to play the game but don't want to support Rowling, some have suggested buying it used, which means money won't go to the publisher, as well as donating money to trans activist organizations. But as long as Harry Potter is so beloved as a franchise , Rowling's controversial comments could remain in the public

Between the Battlefront 2 fiasco and The Rise of Skywalker, it felt as if Star Wars was on the decline as a franchise. The Mandalorian helped restore my faith, though, even if the CGI corpse of young Mark Hamill still haunts me in my dreams. If the Lucasfilm Games experiment pans out, then maybe the Star Wars video games can be redeemed as w

Hogwarts Legacy already had issues out of the gate pertaining to controversy over social issues, as the author of the book series the game is based on, J.K. Rowling, has been under fire for her transphobic comments since they first came out on social media in late 2019. The ongoing allegations prompted WB to announce that Rowling was in no way involved with the production of Hogwarts Legacy after fans threatened to boycott the game. The announcement may have placated some potential players, but there's no doubt that Legacy has remained under the microscope throughout its ongoing product

The Pokemon Company revealed that New Pokemon Snap will be released on April 30 . The game is set in the brand new Lental region, and it will involve the player taking photos of 200 Pokemon. There is something making the Pokemon glow, called the Illumina phenomenon, and it's up to the player to investigate

Harry was deemed a pariah for most of his second year at Hogwarts for being a parseltongue, but what kid doesn’t want to speak to animals? A trait commonly associated with dark wizards—and actually a trait that was passed down by Voldemort himself—it’s one of the traits that’s only whispered about in polite wizard society. Even though it’s not exactly learnable in the Harry Potter universe, being able to unlock it as a skill would open up some cool interacti

" I’m happy to say that, even though I disclosed my YouTube channel to WB Games, it didn’t appear to be an issue for them. Not that they endorse anything that I’ve said, of course, but at least they seem more concerned with making good games than with pushing some kind of a social justice agenda, so there is hop

Neither the WB nor Leavitt have made comments about the revelations at the time of this writing, but considering the amount of backlash the game has already received for being strongly associated with someone with controversial views , it's reasonable to expect that another wave will be coming in light of the revelations. This is particularly true considering that WB Games was already aware of Leavitt's YouTube channel when he was hired on with their subsidiary, Avalanche Studios, in 2018, as Leavitt himself explai

As game developer Crystal Frasier said in a popular tweet thread, the devs who worked on Hogwarts Legacy have likely already been paid in salaries or contracting fees, so their pay won't be determined by how well the game sells. If the game tanks enough to hurt its publisher, it could lead to layoffs, but Frasier argued post-game-launch layoffs are a norm in the AAA game development industry, so it's possible they would need to move on to different jobs, anyway. The only people who would profit from additional sales, then, are likely Warner Bros. and Rowl