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Gaming Is Becoming More Diverse, Opening a New Front in the Culture Wars

New Lines Magazine • Published on 04 Feb 2025 • ~2500 words
Controversy surrounding a new title about a Black samurai in feudal Japan points to a growing split between players and developers.
… some online critics of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows have attempted to reinvent themselves as experts on the history of feudal Japan, proclaiming that many of the books and articles written about Yasuke’s life are not only inaccurate but part of a calculated attempt by left-leaning academics to rewrite the past in their own image. Yasuke, they asserted, wasn’t really a samurai, but has been retroactively turned into one by people who want others to remember him that way.

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Added on 04 Feb 2025 14:20

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