Ubisoft quietly changes Rainbow Six Siege character from New Zealand after people notice her birthday is the same date as the 2019 Christchurch mosque killings

Ubisoft quietly changes Rainbow Six Siege character from New Zealand after people notice her birthday is the same date as the 2019 Christchurch mosque killings

Following an uproar over the new Rainbow Six Siege operator Rauora, Ubisoft has quietly made a change to the character’s biography, moving her date of birth from March 15 to May 11. The original birthdate coincided with two mass shootings at mosques that left 51 people dead and 89 others injured in Christchurch, New Zealand,…

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Delta Force’s Chinese developer says it doesn’t ‘have an opinion’ on the American military and just wants to create ‘fun and meaningful gameplay’ with its campaign based on the very real Battle of Mogadishu

Delta Force sure is a heady mix. A game from Chinese devs about the American military in a Somalian civil war, with a not-yet-released singleplayer campaign modelled after Black Hawk Down, it’s the kind of thing you might expect to have opinions. A perspective. A criticism? Anything to say at all, really, about the experience…

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D&D’s new Monster Manual is gorgeous and filled with welcome variety—but even with a full system revamp, WoTC’s still leaving too much important work to its DMs

D&D has finally completed its initial wave of revamps with the 2024 Monster Manual—confusingly released in 2025, but I don’t make the rules—and, after a read through, I’m downright conflicted. Being a recent PF2e convert, I’ve been quite grumpy about these new books (the Player’s Handbook in particular). As a point of personal opinion, I…

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Earthly Aegis treasure map solution in Avowed

The Earthly Aegis treasure map in Avowed is perhaps the most vague riddle of them all, giving you nothing but a scruffy drawing of a ruin in a forest. Do you know how little that narrows things down, Obsidian? I wandered the forest for ages before figuring out the right ruin, and even then it…

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Black Myth: Wukong said to single-handedly boost monitor sales in 2024 as gamers predicted to buy 2.8 million OLED monitors in 2025

The popularity of OLED gaming monitors is becoming a popular riff. Today, we’ve got new figures from analyst outfit Trendforce that keep the good news coming, albeit with a slightly different spin from LG’s take on the market earlier this week. Arguably the most eye-catching claim from Trendforce’s latest data dump is that the release…

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