It took a long time but one of the biggest reasons why censorship has increased in videogames is fucking off forever after failing to convince everyone that this year's E3 (dumpster fire) was somehow sexist & for not paying her employees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwhFHl8PlFk

Archive: https://invidio.us/watch?v=uwhFHl8PlFk

Even went as far as to pressure CD Projekt RED to hire her as a "consultant". https://archive.fo/mZQhM

In hilarious, good and sad news for censorship.

While Square Enix confirmed there wouldn't be any censorship for the HoneyBee inn, they had to tone down Tifa's breasts after following advice from their ethics department (WTF?). https://nichegamer.com/2019/06/19/final-fantasy-vii-remake-director-confirms-honey-bee-inn-cross-dressing-returns-tifas-breast-size-was-limited-via-ethics-department/

https://archive.fo/GQiZb

Another article talks about the possibility of the FF7 remake being safe from censorship but you can make up your mind whether the game will be neutered or not. https://web.archive.org/web/20190612155341/https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/12/final-fantasy-vii-remake-might-not-just-ignoring-sjw-complaints-spiting/

Next we're going to talk about how Cyberpunk 2077 got into another controversy again.

It all started over a promotional poster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA_jp9vgAms

Archive: https://invidio.us/watch?v=iA_jp9vgAms

It then lead to the usual faux outrage articles. https://archive.fo/Bx4N6

https://archive.fo/p7b5E

https://archive.fo/AuwO4

Finally Mike Pondsmith told the whiners to fuck off. https://nichegamer.com/2019/06/17/cyberpunk-2020-creator-mike-pondsmith-to-cyberpunk-2077-detractors-stop-telling-me-what-to-be-offended-by/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9_rjQYByrA

Archive: https://invidio.us/watch?v=O9_rjQYByrA

The usual whiners weren't happy about a minority telling them to fuck off and started crying more. https://archive.fo/o4uhi

https://archive.li/CSfOE#selection-645.0-647.14

While there have been more Epic store sellouts lately (including the betrayal towards Shenmue 3 funders on Kickstarter) there has been some good news that SNK is one of the few companies to refuse exclusivity. https://nichegamer.com/2019/06/17/samurai-shodown-director-rejected-pc-exclusivity-on-unnamed-pc-sales-platform/

Finally there's a possible chance that Randy Pitchford might go to jail after a former Gearbox employee provided proof of criminal behavior. https://nichegamer.com/2019/06/19/former-gearbox-employee-presents-new-evidence-alleging-randy-pitchford-diverted-funds-to-personal-company/

EDIT: For comedy relief I'll share Crowbcat's E3 2019 video since Nintendo was the only good conference this year that delivered gameplay. I didn't bother paying attention to the other dumpster fires that were conferences this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAYSx7TiJSo

Square Enix's conference was just basically FF7 remake gameplay (a few good announcements for remasters) & then the rest went downhill.

Archive: https://invidio.us/watch?v=pAYSx7TiJSo

UPDATE: Since I already mentioned Cyberpunk 2077, there's been rumors going around that Epic Games & the game journos are using coordinated attacks towards CD Projekt. (Feel free to take with a grain of salt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gwK-FrvCSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0zmn0hEv24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFXk5Bte1FQ

Archives: https://invidio.us/watch?v=5gwK-FrvCSA

https://invidio.us/watch?v=q0zmn0hEv24

https://invidio.us/watch?v=fFXk5Bte1FQ

Square Enix also gave a cop out excuse for censoring Tifa in the FF7 remake. https://nichegamer.com/2019/06/21/square-enix-ethics-department-is-for-meeting-age-ratings-further-explains-changes-with-tifas-breasts/