Homophobia in Halo 3

patr1ck — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:41:52 -0800

"I want to hang you because you're gay." [nsfw audio]
"That's not very nice." But that is what player xxx GayBoy xxx heard on while playing Halo 3 on Xbox Live. Gaygamer.net explains that other than his provoking name, he did nothing to call for the prejudice attacks. As most gamers will tell you, this sort of language is common in game. [more nsfw audio] Thank god for the mute button. It's nice to know there are still heroes. [Previously: 1, 2, 3]

"Jade Raymond Smells Nice"?!! WTF?!!

zabuni — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:25:56 -0800

This is why we can't have nice things/people. Jade Raymond is a producer for Ubisoft's new video game Assassin's Creed. Being an attractive woman, Ubisoft decided to capitalize on this fact, leading to sad and pathetic video game coverage of said woman. Then the comic hit. The comic (which being of extraordinary poor taste, I will not link to. A panel of it is shown in the first link) plays to every horrible misogynistic stereotype that people have about women in video games. As can be expected, this caused an uproar, with Ubisoft trying to sue the comic off the Internet, even sending threatening letters to SomethingAwful, with predictable results. I would like to proud when I say "I play video games". Some days, it is difficult.

MetaFilter posts tagged with godwhy

Homophobia in Halo 3

"Jade Raymond Smells Nice"?!! WTF?!!