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505 Games Partners With Females-Only Streamers To Introduce Control's Newest Protagonist

505 Games Writes On Twitter: We’ve partnered with select female creators to introduce @remedygames’s newest protagonist, Jesse Faden, in the first streams for @ControlRemedy !

TheOptimist2136d ago

This is a new level of retardation. :/

So now, are we going to have men introduce new male protagonists?

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Tross2136d ago

We will have to wait for International Men's Day, which I'm sure will be introduced shortly after the annual Straight Pride Parade.

BadElf2136d ago

Been waiting.

Was petitioning at my local Governmental building to get a National Scrotum Day. A day that was focused on the painful, painful things that can happen to Scrotum. A focus on how precious it truely is. Just have more awareness to it

rob-GP2136d ago

Maybe if you weren’t so ignorant, you’d know that it actually exists and is in November...

DaDrunkenJester2136d ago (Edited 2136d ago )

@rob

You know why nobody knows about national mens day? Because it was only a thing from 1992, its younger than I am, and nobody even acknowledges it lol it even went away for a few years until it relaunched in '99.

Where is testicular or prostate cancer awareness month actually acknowledged as well? Come October everyone is wearing pink, but where is the same recognition for the purple ribbon in April?

"Breast cancer received $60 million more than prostate cancer and ovarian cancer and $64 million more than testicular cancer. The smaller funding for men's health research is a paradox given their average life expectancy is just 79.7 compared to 84.2 for women."

"A SPECTACULAR gender gap has resulted in men’s health problems being allocated a quarter of the funding women’s health research gets, ranked just ahead of parasitic infections. This is even though men die four and a half years earlier than women, and are 60 per cent more likely to die from cancer.
It is one reason there is still no reliable test to detect aggressive forms of prostate cancer, a bigger killer than breast cancer."

ginganinja2135d ago

@Dadrunkenjester
Movember passed you by then?

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DaDrunkenJester2136d ago

I have no issue with this as long as the same people praising this wouldn't bitch about a publisher using only male streamers to promote their next game that has a male lead.

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GameStallion2135d ago

Oh man, I just pre-ordered the game- is this what they are going to use my money for, a “woke” message to the video game world? Featuring only female streamers instead of people who are first passionate about what you do is an obnoxious and shortsighted PR stunt.

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Spurg2136d ago (Edited 2136d ago )

505 games aren't really the best publishers. They are the one who decided to let control be exclusive to EGS

PapaBop2136d ago

Right there in one line you told me everything I need to know about 505 games lol.

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sagittariusboy2136d ago

And the ones responsible for ALL exclusivity deals concerning Control.
Hope that this is the last Remedy game they publish.

sushimama2136d ago

That's sexist. Stupid F*cks

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DaDrunkenJester2136d ago

It's not sexist to promote a female lead using female streamers...

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SockeyBoy2136d ago

Omg are you being serious???

Pirate that game boy

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While Layoffs Hit the Industry, Nintendo Retains 98% of Staff Including 78 With Disabilities

TNS: Based on its most recent ESG data, Nintendo boasts a remarkably low staff turnover rate of just 1.9%, with virtually no reported layoffs.

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Jin_Sakai2d ago

Because Nintendo makes great games.

Yesyes1d 8h ago

It’s unreal that people are downvoting this when they consistently have the best scoring games on metacritic.

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rlow12d ago

Well it doesn’t surprise me. As much money as they make and how they value their employees. It’s a great company in that regard.

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drivxr2d ago

Well, when your games remain full price many years after release.

And you make profit off of outdated hardware.

I would be shocked if they couldn't afford to retain their staff.

lodossrage1d 22h ago (Edited 1d 22h ago )

I didn't want to say anything but drivxr is right.

Nintendo always sells at a profit because they purposely use tech that's always 5 or more years behind. And it's also true their games hardly ever get price decreases.

Don't get me wrong, it's great they kept most of their workforce, but making a point to have your tech specs behind everyone else affords that luxury.

Darkegg1d 19h ago

I don’t think it’s their purpose to use old tech. It’s their purpose to make value of software and know their value. Nobody makes games like them that’s for sure. I just don’t appreciate their customer unfriendly policy.

It’s not impossible to take their status. Companies need to have a selection of 8-bit and 16-bit. Now imagine a split screen for 8 player game for SNES Mario kart and selling at $9.99. The problem is that it doesn’t make profit. So many companies won’t invest in “old” technology. Everyone guns for triple AAA modern technology software but honestly we can enjoy modernized 16-bit creative ideas that allows 8-player mayhem. It’s a pipe dream, possible but impossible.

Shane Kim1d 20h ago (Edited 1d 20h ago )

If they ended up kicking people out after all of that stated above, it would be truly shameful.

DivineHand1251d 16h ago

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla and Meta are all trillion dollar companies yet they are laying people off in large numbers.

I believe the reason Nintendo layoffs off less workers may be a result of their culture. It seems Japanese companies believe in giving their workers long term or life long employment opportunities and will exhaust all options before laying off workers. This is something we don't see much of in the west unfortunately.

Rdeal1d 9h ago

might be something to do with the fact all those companies hire more than 20x the employees than Nintendo

LoveSpuds1d 15h ago (Edited 1d 15h ago )

What the hell are you talking about? It has nothing to do with how profitable they are. Its completely cultural, MS and Sony make stacks of cash and still lay folks off. Nintendo chose not to lay off staff for the same reason their execs took pay cuts to increase staff pay instead; because they value their staff and view them as colleagues, and respect them as such.

If Sony weren't so US centric I fancy they'd fare better too, they should get shot of US and European leadership and go back to when Japanese execs were running the show if you ask me!

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Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc To Rock San Diego Comic-Con

This should make fans attending the ahow event happier as Bandai Namco is bringing some interesting game experiences to the convention.

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Blacknut Announces a New Partnership With Kalypso Media

Blacknut has announced a brand new partnership with Kalypso Media. This will see Kalypso's gaming portfolio arrive on Blacknut.

The partnership will take hold from June 27th with the arrival of a selection of Klaypos Media titles onto the Blacknut cloud gaming platform.

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