Video games Achieved Fast (GDQ), the group that holds speedrun marathons that elevate cash for a wide range of charities, has up to date its banned recreation listing to incorporate Hogwarts Legacy and all Harry Potter titles. Nevertheless, the corporate has additionally mentioned this ban will likely be “topic to additional evaluate sooner or later.”
Why have been the Harry Potter video games banned from GDQ?
Harry Potter video games have been allowed in earlier GDQ occasions and the corporate is but to elucidate to The Gamer why they’ve banned the titles now. Nevertheless, it’s believed to be linked to the controversy surrounding Harry Potter creator JK Rowling’s feedback on the transgender group that led one Hogwarts Legacy developer to boycott the sport utterly and the director to make clear that “the staff made Hogwarts Legacy for everybody.”
The GDQ banned recreation listing additionally contains video games with overly sexual content material and gratuitous violence, which shouldn’t come as a lot of a shock for an occasion that’s aimed on being youngster pleasant:
- Video games with an ESRB score of Adults Solely.
- Any recreation that’s prohibited on twitch
- Air Management
- America’s Most Wished
- Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
- 5 Nights at Freddy’s Collection
- Frog Fractions
- God of Battle (2005)
- Harry Potter Collection, together with Hogwarts Legacy*
- Huniepop Collection
- Ion Fury
- Kurovadis
- Eroico
- Natsuiro Excessive College: Seishun Hakusho
- Rocko’s Quest
GDQ’s subsequent occasion would be the Summer time Video games Achieved Fast marathon in Could, however don’t anticipate to see Hogwarts Legacy included within the schedule anytime quickly.