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<b>Yannick LeJacq:</b> Ntendo of Ameri will not allow gay relatnships Tomodachi Life, and their logic jt don't add up

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NTENDO'S REJECTN OF GAY RELATNSHIPS GIV FANS A LOT TO BE ANGRY ABOUT

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Don't that kd of brg up gay isn't okay but lbians are mentaly? They jt n't fall love if they're gay. Ntendo me unr fire om fans and gay rights anizatns last week after refg to add same-sex relatnship optns to the game "Tomodachi Life.

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Already a h Japan, "Tomodachi Life" is set for release June 6 North Ameri and Mari, a 23-year-old gay Ntendo fan om Ma, Arizona, lnched a social media mpaign last month seekg virtual equaly for the game's characters.

"I don't believe they are a homophobic pany at all, " Mari said.

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"Yet the issue do mark a cultural divi between Japan, where gay marriage is not legal, and North Ameri and Europe, where gay marriage has bee legal some plac. "While many English-language gam don't feature gay characters, several role-playg seri produced by English-speakg velopers, such as Electronic Arts, "The Sims, " Microsoft Studs' `'Fable" and Bethda Softworks' "The Elr Scrolls, " have allowed players to create characters that n woo others of the same sex, as well as marry and have Ntendo said this past week - rponse to Mari's growg mpaign - that wouldn't add same-sex relatnship optns to "Tomodachi Life, " the publisher of such gamg anchis as "The Legend of Zelda" and "Mar Bros. " was lled out by fans and anizatns such as the gay advocy group GLAAD.

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"Ntendo has taken a first step, but if the pany's longtime valu are rooted `fun and entertament for everyone, ' then needs to tch up to peers like Electronic Arts, which has been clive of LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) gamers for years, " said GLAAD Print and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis a statement. Even as the pany ntu to flounr s current state of fancial secury, much of the cricism om fans, tractors and dtry analysts is livered as if om a ncerned iend, rather than a dispassnate changed on Wednday, when Ntendo of Ameri (NOA) rpond to a social media mpaign askg the pany to allow players to enter to gay relatnships s game Tomodachi Life wh a flat nial issued to the Associated pany "never tend to make any form of social mentary wh the lnch of Tomodachi Life", the statement reasoned. 'Your life', but not if you're gay.

But if you make a game that's meant to simulate life – even a "whimsil and quirky versn" of life – and then tell a portn of your players that they're simply not allowed to make an thentic simulatn of their liv, somethg isn't addg the weirst part of Ntendo's jtifitn for effectively banng gay marriage the prec ltle virtual universe of Tomodachi Life is yet to e.

But part of what they loved about , acrdg to a report by my Kotaku lleague Brian Ashcraft, is that there was ially a bug the software that allowed players to dulge gay relatnships – or at least male on.

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California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books. Voters uld remove next year - CBS Sacramento.

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