This Week in Gaming: Goodbye McCree, Nintendo and Game Pass indies, and Rockstar remasters

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t’s been another quiet week in the August gaming slump, as we prepare for the big releases later this month. The Activision Blizzard scandal continues unfurling, which isn’t so good. On the other hand, the Nintendo Switch is getting a bunch of indies, which is very good. Xbox Game Pass continues to get better, and we might be getting some Rockstar remasters.

Activision Blizzard loses more personnel in scandalous times

Let’s just embrace the fact that this story isn’t going away — and probably shouldn’t, given how big and important the company in question is. Another round of “resignations” has seen some major figures leave the company in the last week. We heard this week that Diablo 4 director Luis Barriga, World of Warcraft designer Jonathan LeCraft, and lead designer Jesse McCree are no longer with the company. While the company has not given a reason for their departures, McCree and LeCraft were both in a series of pictures showing the infamous “Cosby Suite” named in the lawsuit that started this whole thing.

While these departures make it appear, on a superficial level, that the company is doing something, many are calling for the company to take more definitive action. At least one stockholder has decried the “inadequate response.” On a slightly different note, there appears to be at least one unusual casualty of this scandal: Players are asking that Blizzard rename Overwatch character Jesse McCree, who took his name from the Blizzard employee. It wouldn’t do much to mitigate the aforementioned inadequate response, but Blizzard could surely use the good optics right now.

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