Someone at TIME thought it was a good idea to collaborate with Epic Games in bringing a sort of recreation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s speech to Fortnite. Should Epic have agreed to this decision? Should TIME have chosen a different game? Should this have happened at all?

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New gameplay of Call of Duty: Vanguard was shown at Gamescom. I think it looked pretty good. But all things considered, will it sell well? There’s interesting elements of the game and we have to consider the ActivisionBlizzard investigation. What do you think?

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According to California, and reported by Axios, Activision is shredding documents related to their investigation. Wow. Did you know Activision was this bad? The record shows, we should have seen this coming.

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Rhianna Pratchett spoke with Wired about her storytelling career and she noted that she was ‘very disappointed’ that the Grand Theft Auto 5 writers did not include a female lead as one of the three characters. But my question is: would you trust the writers of GTA to create a good female lead?

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343 Industries said they are delaying campaign co-op and Forge to make sure what is coming at launch is good and that those two modes are good as well. Should they delay the game instead to release the game all at once?

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Tetris Effect: Connected is coming to the Nintendo Switch. If you own a Nintendo Switch, should you pick this up?

Here's my review on Gaming Trend.

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Dr. Disrespect is creating his own game studio and is looking forward someone to run it. How much success do you think the studio will have?

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Jason Schreier has struck nerves on Twitter again, pointing out that diversity on development teams matter. How much would you say diversity matters?

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I was browsing the Back 4 Blood Reddit and saw a comment that was odd. Do other people think like the way this person thinks?

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Go to the Back 4 Blood Reddit and you'll see some of the most dishonest discussion around a video game I've ever seen. When does a person get to talk about a game?

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