The Biggest Gaming News For February 14, 2022

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Since today was Valentine’s Day, the news was very much focused on warm and fuzzy feelings. I’m of course kidding. While some of the news did in fact have to do with the holiday, I don’t think that you could exactly call it either warm or fuzzy. The retailer known as Game has been coming under fire for an advertising campaign which seems to have been mocking domestic violence. In other news, we found out that Garena Free Fire has for some reason been banned in India. Nintendo and miHoYo also came out on opposite sides of the metaverse debate and the Chief Executive Officer at PlatinumGames weighed in on the recent business acquisitions.

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India is one of those countries with a long history of banning games. PUBG Mobile for example was banned back in September, 2020 for being “prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of India, security of state, and public order.” Garena Free Fire just joined this growing list of games to get banned. “On receipt of the interim order passed under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, following the established process, we have notified the affected developers and have temporarily blocked access to the apps that remained available on the Play Store in India,” a spokesperson for Google said. While the reason seems to be a connection with China, the developer behind Garena Free Fire is actually based in Singapore, so there has been all sorts of speculation about the ban.

The metaverse has been in the news a lot lately and the latest development is that miHoYo has finally jumped on the bandwagon. The company is calling their upcoming creation the HoYoverse. The aim is apparently to “create