TheGamer's Best Features Of The Week: HBO Max’s Animation Purge, Eeveelutions, And More

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Splatoon 3 is shaping up to be another Nintendo hit, Warner Bros. Discovery is burying its own grave with a growing HBO Max purge, and MultiVersus might be getting a story mode, but does it need it?

It’s been an ink-teresting week for games and we’ve plenty to say about it, so here are some of the best features of the week from yours truly, TheGamer.

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Saints Row is finally out and editor-in-chief Stacey Henley dove deep into its character creator - it’s impressively extensive, even by Saints Row standards, and offers a slew of options for trans players in a way that other recent titles like Cyberpunk 2077 have failed to deliver on. In Cyberpunk, you can give a femme character a penis - that might seem like a win for representation, giving you a lot of freedom over who V is - but there’s no bulge. Instead, femme characters stay smooth as Keith David’s voice.

Saints Row meanwhile keeps that bulge intact outside the nudity of the character creator, something that Stacey came to love as she dressed up The Boss in everything from skirts to latex fetish wear, and it helped her to embrace the bulge and treat it more like an accessory than an annoyance or obstacle.

MultiVersus might be getting a story mode as per certain credits in-game and some rumours swirling. Warner Bros. could be looking to explain how Batman came to meet Finn and Arya on the battlefield, but news writer Josh Coulson isn’t a fan of that idea - it’s a convoluted way to explain the mishmash of IPs and characters that simply doesn’t need to happen. They’re in the game because they’re fun to play, not because of some interdimensional evil. Naturally, that means the story comes second, so it’s