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Overwatch Voice Actor on McCree Name Change: It 'Needed To Be Done'

Blizzard announced that it was renaming Overwatch's McCree due to controversy surrounding the real-life Jesse McCree. Voice actor Matthew Mercer has finally spoken out about the matter.

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-Hermit-1331d ago

No it didn't. Most people that play Overwatch don't even know or care about the issues with Blizzard right now.

jambola1330d ago

and the people who care will be upset that Blizzard allowed it to happen
not that they kept a name

Godmars2901330d ago

Its literally one of a number of issues currently plaguing the company. A symptom of an old corrupt exploitive culture not isolated to Blizzard.

That there's another likely apparent - to some - corrupt exploitive culture waiting/moving to replace it, is sadly - kind of - besides the point.

TheDoomedGuy1330d ago (Edited 1330d ago )

And not only that but they willingly attracted attention to the issue since by changing the name they will make people wonder and look into it.

It'll back fire since it's gonna make more people upset and possibly boycott.

Changing the name of a character in a freaking videogame trivializes what actually matters regarding the issue

-Foxtrot1330d ago

Did it though?

I know he's just saying it because if he said otherwise the twitter mob would have slaughtered him, ruining potential future work for him but hardly anyone knew except the hardcore fanbase that he shared the name with a blizzard employee in the whole scandal.

Godmars2901330d ago

Thing is, now that it is known, its being made public. And the longer all of this mess continues, that information will also become more known.

SDuck1330d ago

A good way to understand how absurd this is would be by replacing McCree with John. Imagine changing a character's name because some John has some beef with the studio. It's ludricous. More important than being based on the real guy's name is that the name McCree was actually a badass name for a cowboy.

GenMasterB1330d ago

Anyone old enough to remember the 3DO, Sega CD gun game "Mad Dog McCree"??

jambola1330d ago

no, getting rid of sexually abusive people in your company "needed to happen" changing a name is just their way of acting like they didn't ignore horrible sexual abuse at their company for years

kneon1330d ago

I think it was a pre-emptive move before someone makes a connection between the two.

Spenok1330d ago

People are so damned dumb.

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HITMAN Signature Edition hits Switch 2 June 5 with Mario & Luigi–inspired outfits and full trilogy

HITMAN Signature Edition lands June 5 on Switch 2 with 100+ hours of content and Mario & Luigi–inspired pre-order bonuses.

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Neonridr1d 11h ago

sucks that it's one of those game cards though. 61GB download required.

ZeekQuattro4h ago

Oh God, I can already see the Luigi Hitman memes returning.

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OG Destiny artist recalls Bungie’s “disgruntled” reaction to Halo 4’s art style change

Original Destiny artist Darren Bacon recalls how Bungie reacted to the art style change of Halo 4 by 343 Industries.

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Tacoboto4d ago

Bungie at that time became the most wonderful bunch of hypocrites in the gaming industry. Knowing this now, gosh the entitlement they felt was out of this world.

Nothing like buying yourself from Microsoft because you don't want to be the Halo Studio anymore, and the FIRST THING you do is sign your next IP over to Activision, for a DECADE, while they are in the middle of ousting the heads of Infinity Ward so they can exert even more control over COD while screwing out the devs at IW...

Should've come as no surprise then that Activision gutted the content of Destiny 1 before launch and was a horrible partner through Destiny 2, until history repeated itself and Bungie had to split from Activision only to wind up in the arms of another major conglomerate that also doesn't know how to handle these unmanageable devs.

Profchaos4d ago

Tti their credit they praised the technical abilities of 343 and I remember at the time thinking halo 4 was a huge graphical leap above reach everything else was rubbish when I actually got to play it but there was no doubt it looked good for the 360 and is probably the best looking game on the system.

But ultimately I think bungie has always had a leadership problem and going independent ultimately proved this it's only getting worse with studio heads being outed by Sony for abuse allegations seems like all bungies past success has been in spite of management not because of it.

But really I think the bungie we have today is not the same one we had in that Xbox era of Bungie

PhillyDonJawn4d ago

I liked the artstyle change. For the most part. Something looked worse but most of everything else looked better. Weapons and vehicles for sure. The wraith come to my mind instantly.
And how can they get mad when the bungie changed it with Halo Reach?

Sciurus_vulgaris3d ago

I know a lot of people dislike Halo 4’s arts style, but there’s thing about it I like and dislike. Personally, the Halo 4 design of Master Chief’s armour is my favourite depiction of the character’s armour.

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Dying Light: The Beast – interview with Tymon Smektala (‘Dying Light’ Franchise Director)

An interview with Tymon Smektala (Franchise Director, Dying Light) where I get to ask him as to how Techland was impacted by its DLC story leaks, how the studio has changed after being acquired by Tencent, where he sees the Dying Light franchise going in future, and how he's been able to maintain enthusiasm for the Dying Light franchise since he joined Techland 10-odd years ago. Enjoy!

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