https://www.eurogamer.net/stellar-blade-review

Eurogamer addressed the controversy, by having the reviewer comment her thoughts about it, rather than ignoring the game, as it happened with howarts legacy.

I liked her views on it. They seem more mature than what I expected form Eurogamer.

Some excerpts:

"""

Look, I don't completely believe that Eve was designed solely to cater for men. Developer Shift Up's ongoing mobile game, Goddess of Victory: Nikke (AKA Butts, The Game), makes a huge amount of money by selling characters in costumes that make Eve's outfits look like churchwear, and Nikke has a large female fanbase, at least in its Japanese and South Korean markets. This clearly works for Shift Up, so I get why in Stellar Blade they've included plenty of sketchy costumes - and made possibly the worst implementation of 'jiggle' physics I've ever laughed at.

"""

"""

At best, this all amounts to an embarrassing look for video games - the exact type of conversation that makes them seem just as juvenile and shallow as some outside of the industry still believe. Of course the gamers are debating boobs, what else would they be doing? At worst, however, it's incredibly toxic 'discourse' that's turned Stellar Blade into a lightning rod for harassment. You can like Stellar Blade's sexualisation without going on a hate campaign against all other types of women in games, and women working in the games space, but then admitting that would make too much sense.

"""

It's funny how the world works.

You end with a Chinese government backed organization that has the international version of it's app restricted inside mainland china due to non openly applying censorship, argue in front another country, that forcing it's sales to a non Chinese owner under threat of not allowing it on American app platforms constitutes a violation of freedom of speech.

Yet traditional media has long not been allowed to be owned by foreigners in the USA (let alone officially designated foreign adversaries)

And this doesn't even take in to consideration the trade asymmetry of foreign social media not being allowed inside of china and Chinese social media making money abroad.

https://twitter.com/TikTokPolicy/status/1783149300471525637

TikTok and the Chinese government are claiming that the law is unconstitutional and violates freedom of speech.

I wonder if they can use the same argument to get TikTok itself and others unbanned in china.

Seems that the bill to de-platform TikTok has passed.

The house republicans attached the bill to the foreign act bill to force the democrats in the Senate to speed it up.

Next step is for Biden to sign it ( he already said he will)

And then to see if it can withstand legal challenges. That will be the largest potential impediment for implementation.

No, but I consider myself just as pretty as all the people that have been stalked.

Home world 3 looks very exciting.

Wish they would remake cataclysm, what a nice game

Do very hard things I life and face frustration in life daily, then a relaxing easy experience will feel like heaven.

No, due to widespread piracy (before) and digital purchases (which did a lot to replace piracy due to regional prices), my country never had a good 2 hand market for games.

It's one of the things that I thought was very cool about japan when I went there.

Ps: regional prices are great. It really included as from non developed countries in to the legal video game market.

I will be getting it. I like the art style and I am interested about the concept.

They have major help to Ukraine and sadly unnecessary help to Israel.

But at least the Ukraine help will be very important to prevent Russian continuous advancement.