Video games Executed Fast (GDQ), the group that holds speedrun marathons that increase cash for quite a lot of charities, has up to date its banned sport record to incorporate Hogwarts Legacy and all Harry Potter titles. Nevertheless, the corporate has additionally mentioned this ban will likely be “topic to additional evaluation sooner or later.”
Why have been the Harry Potter video games banned from GDQ?
Harry Potter video games have been allowed in earlier GDQ occasions and the corporate is but to elucidate to The Gamer why they’ve banned the titles now. Nevertheless, it’s believed to be linked to the controversy surrounding Harry Potter creator JK Rowling’s feedback on the transgender neighborhood that led one Hogwarts Legacy developer to boycott the sport utterly and the director to make clear that “the crew made Hogwarts Legacy for everybody.”
The GDQ banned sport record additionally consists of video games with overly sexual content material and gratuitous violence, which shouldn’t come as a lot of a shock for an occasion that’s aimed on being little one pleasant:
- Video games with an ESRB score of Adults Solely.
- Any sport that’s prohibited on twitch
- Air Management
- America’s Most Needed
- Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
- 5 Nights at Freddy’s Collection
- Frog Fractions
- God of Battle (2005)
- Harry Potter Collection, together with Hogwarts Legacy*
- Huniepop Collection
- Ion Fury
- Kurovadis
- Eroico
- Natsuiro Excessive College: Seishun Hakusho
- Rocko’s Quest
GDQ’s subsequent occasion would be the Summer time Video games Executed Fast marathon in Might, however don’t anticipate to see Hogwarts Legacy included within the schedule anytime quickly.
