Tag Archives: Censorship

The Last Dinner Party have pulled out of their set at Victorious Festival in Portsmouth, England today (Aug. 23), in solidarity with the Mary Wallopers, whose set was cut short on Friday after the Irish band showed their support for Palestine. “We are outraged by the decision made to silence the Mary Wallopers yesterday at Victorious,” The Last Dinner Party …

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers patch 1.5 is here, and while some of the numerous changes address some major player complaints, one big one radically changes the story in ways that many are calling censorship. Despite generally being critically well-received for its gameplay and mechanics, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has been plagued by performance issues on PC, resulting in a wave of negative …

A new wave of book bans has hit Florida school districts, with hundreds of titles being pulled from library and classroom shelves as the school year kicks off. The Republican-dominated state, which has already had the highest rate of book bans nationwide this year, is continuing to censor reading materials in schools, bowing to external pressures in an effort to …

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, a relatively young Soulslike action game, has fallen on hard times as of late. In addition to overwhelmingly negative Steam reviews criticizing the game’s shoddy PC performance at launch, the game has since received a huge update, which has significantly altered its story and gameplay in a way I’d argue is for the worse. For starters, according …

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers players have reacted negatively to a new update which prevents players from killing many of its historical figures, changing the plot in the process. The Soulslike, which was released last month, is set during the late Ming Dynasty and tells an alternate history of the period, with the player controlling pirate Bai Wuchang as she attempts to …

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has been called a lot of things: Souls-slop, gooner-bait, a surprisingly good game. You can now add “censored” to the list after a recent 1.5 update made controversial changes to the game, seemingly to quell a backlash from some fans in China. A few diehard fans are now relieved they bought the game on disc knowing they …

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Over one million people have claimed their freebies in support of GOG’s FreedomToBuy.Games initiative. In a limited-time campaign, the company is offering 13 NSFW games for free in protest after digital platforms like Steam and itch.io acknowledged a tightening of the rules around their NSFW content due to pressure from payment processors. On Friday, August 1, GOG issued a statement …

Great news, perverts/freedom enthusiasts: You have a bit more than 24 hours left to score some free “adult” games, whether for ideological reasons, or, really, any other reason you might want to play a video game where you do a Bejeweled-style Match-3 in order to get anime women to take their clothes off. This whole thing is going to take …

In partnership with developers, game marketplace GOG (Good Old Games) has launched a new website called FreedomtoBuy.games that’ll let you download select “adult” games for free. GOG believes the website takes a stand “against the quiet erasure of creative works from digital shelves,” a response of sorts to recent decisions from Steam and Itch to delist certain violent and sexuality-explicit …