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Gaming Updates: What the hell is Martin Luther King doing at Fortnight ?! | Israel today

2021-08-30T09:55:52.554Z


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Bling King

And Fortnite's new special guest is ... she ... is ... Martin Luther King.

Absolutely real.

In a surprising move and some would say delusional, this weekend the Afik company incorporated in its free Battle Royale game an "interactive museum" dedicated to the late human rights fighter.

Well, let the kids learn something instead of trying to eliminate each other with missile launchers and sniper rifles - and we'm not entirely cynical, but just a little.

The project, which also takes part in TIME magazine, allows young gamers to be impressed by King's work and even watch his famous "I have a dream" speech.

So on the one hand, at least on paper, this is a positive venture designed to impart to children and youth knowledge about one of the most important personalities in history.

On the other hand, the very inclusion of a Nobel Peace Prize winner in a game / money squeezer where the main goal is to kill each other and show off virtual cosmetic items bought for no particular reason other than ... to show them off, seems puzzling and even pointless to us.

Wasn't it better to do it in Minecraft?

Not tested on animals

The sweet animals of "Animal Crossing", Nintendo's crushing and tailored answer to The Sims, are hosted in a new collection in a limited edition Puma.

The few items featured so far are sneakers and a hoodie, but this is just the beginning - expect more exposures of items for kids and adults, alongside prices and a date to hit the shelves, in the coming days.

surprising?

Not really.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Switch is the third best-selling game in the US in 2020. It is preceded by only two Voice of Duty games, and behind it, you will be surprised, Ghost of Tsuhima and The Last of Us Part 2 exclusive to the PlayStation, as well as various sports games And no less important: New Horizons is the best-selling game in Japan for that year,

and the second best-selling game of all time in the land of the rising sun

(the first is the original Pokemon game, in its red and green versions, from 1996).

New Horizons currently sells at least 36 million copies worldwide, just a year and a half after its launch - a crazy achievement for an exclusive title for a specific console.

So yeah, Puma knows exactly what she's doing.

And probably Nintendo too.

good dog

Meet Goodboy Galaxy, a new two-dimensional platform game with an astronaut dog that will soon be released for Switch, PC and ... Gameboy Advance ?!

It turns out yes.

The cute title's kickstarter venture has amassed far more than the $ 24,777 it has set for itself (the last time we tested it stood at $ 88,077), and is on track to be the first commercial Gameboy Advance game distributed on physical tapes since 2008 (the year they stopped marketing Nintendo's portable console in Europe, two years after it retired in Japan and about two years before its end in North America).

If it does not warm your heart - then nothing will be able to do it anymore.

Really not accidental

So what's new this week in the Activision-Blizzard affair?

Not too much, except that the battered girlfriend decided to change the name of one of the favorite characters on Overwatch: none other than the charming cowboy Jesse McCree.

The reason: McCurry is named after one of Blizzard's executives and the man who until recently led the development of Diablo 4, but was fired from the company in disgrace about two weeks ago.

Between the lines it can be concluded that McCurry (the human, not the character) was marked as one of the main culprits in the affair, to the point that the guys decided, in a precedent-setting and inconceivable move, to completely renounce him and erase every trace of his name from one of its flagship games.

The character's new name has not yet been released, however it has been reported that the next game update, which was due out in September, has been postponed to a later date.

Source: israelhayom

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