Ntendo game “Tomadachi Life” don’t allow gay upl - CBS News

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• NTENDO APOLOGIZ FOR OMTG GAY MARRIAGE FROM 'TOMODACHI LIFE'
• NTENDO PROMIS GAY UPL TOMODACHI LIFE SEQUEL

NTENDO APOLOGIZ FOR OMTG GAY MARRIAGE FROM 'TOMODACHI LIFE'

They jt n't fall love if they're gay.

NTENDO PROMIS GAY UPL TOMODACHI LIFE SEQUEL

Ntendo isn't allowg gamers to play as gay an upg life simulator game. Tye Mari, a gay 23-year-old Ntendo fan om Ma, Arizona, lnched the mpaign last month, urgg Osaka, Japan-based Ntendo Co. " The issue marks not only a cultural divi between Japan, where gay marriage is not legal, and North Ameri and Europe, where gay marriage has bee legal some plac, but also the teractive world, where gam are often pastakgly "lolized" for other regns, meang characters' voic and likens are changed to su different lol and ctoms.

While many English-language gam don't feature gay characters, several role-playg seri produced by English-speakg velopers, such as "The Sims, " "Fable" and "The Elr Scrolls, " have allowed players to create characters that n woo characters of the same sex, as well as marry and have children. Other more narrative-driven gam, like "Grand Theft Auto IV, " "The Last of Us" and "Gone Home, " have clud specific gay, lbian and bisexual characters.

Ntendo hted Friday that may allow for gay relatnships future versns of s “Tomodachi Life” vio world’s largt vio game pany has been the target of cricism om gay-rights gamers who plaed that characters aren’t allowed to have same-sex relatnships English edns of the life-simulator game. ”A gay Arizona man, Tye Mari, took to social media last month urgg Ntendo to add same-sex relatnship optns to English versns of the handheld Ntendo 3DS game. "Ntendo has said that the abily for same-sex relatnships to occur was not part of the origal game that lnched Japan, where gay marriage is not legal.