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By ThatParkPlace, 6 September, 2024

Revenue for HoYoverse’s Genshin Impact increased over 8% in August compared to July in spite of the active boycott against the game and developer. A boycott of Genshin Impact and HoYoverse was launched back in July with a petition titled “Stop Cultural Appropriation and Whitewashing in MiHoYo Games.” The petition states, “We call on MiHoYo […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 6 September, 2024

Warner Bros. Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels recently revealed that one of the company’s “biggest priorities” is a Hogwarts Legacy successor. During an appearance at Bank of America’s 2024 Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference, Variety reported that Wiedenfels said, “Obviously, a successor to ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ is one of the biggest priorities in a couple of years […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 6 September, 2024

Disney announced today that in its latest cost cutting move, it would be slashing funding for its Aspire higher education program for cast members. Aspire is a program in which Disney previously would cover 100% of the cost of higher education for cast members. It was seen as an investment in the people who work […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 6 September, 2024

“Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright, The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out.” This is the final line from Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s timeless poem Casey at the […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 6 September, 2024

Sweet Baby Inc. CEO Kim Belair continued to trot out the victim card while also attempting to deny that her company’s end goal is to wokeify and take over the video game industry. In an interview with Black Girl Gamers on YouTube, Belair said, “I think of us almost as patient zero of this wave […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 6 September, 2024

Joe Locke, who plays a character named Teen in the upcoming Agatha All Along series on Disney+, recently stated that a misconception about Marvel is “that it’s just for, like, straight white men.” In an interview with Paul McGuire Grimes alongside a number of his cast members, Locke was asked, “There’s a line about Patti […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 5 September, 2024

The following article uses data from respected news sources on the web. However, the data ultimately comes from an alleged breach of Disney security. That Park Place never condones illicit and unethical obtainment of corporate data and does not report on such findings until and unless other news sources make it readily available in the […]

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By ThatParkPlace, 5 September, 2024

Humberly González, the actress who portrays Kay Vess in Star Wars Outlaws, says the video game industry has a lot of misogyny while also praising Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment for ensuring the only character in the game is female. In an interview with CGM in the middle of August, the outlet’s Dayna Eileen asked, “So […]

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