Article 5BQT8 GOG walks back release of controversial horror game Devotion

GOG walks back release of controversial horror game Devotion

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Megan Farokhmanesh
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Hours after announcing it would bring controversial horror game Devotion to its platform, CD Projekt Red's digital storefront GOG has reneged on its release plans. The company's social media account claims that after receiving many messages from gamers, we have decided not to list the game in our store."

Devotion has been at the center of a censorship controversy since release last year, after players found in-game content that referred to Xi Jinping, the president of China, as a Winnie-the-Pooh moron." The Chinese leader is notoriously sensitive to the cartoon bear, to which memers have continuously compared him; the movie Christopher Robin did not get a Chinese release. Mentions of comedian John Oliver were outright censored on...

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