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Game devs and publishers need to just make us gay in open-world games

Written by: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor Ubisoft’s recent open-world game, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, recently got nominated for a GLAAD media award for Outstanding Video Game for letting you romance any character, regardless of whether you choose a male or female playable character. This nomination came as a pretty significant surprise, though, as earlier in the month the game released a largely disliked piece of downloadable content (DLC) where your character marries a heterosexually-compatible character in one of the final cutscenes as part of the story. This is the only point in the game where you have no control over your…

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