Eight more women have come forward in Sony’s gender discrimination lawsuit and EA’s Dead Space remake has reportedly been delayed.
More news to bring you today, including a serious story regarding Sony’s ongoing gender discrimination lawsuit. We’ve also got news of a reported delay to EA’s Dead Space remake, and a couple of fun Elden Ring stories because that’s all anyone ever talks about these days. You can find out more below.
Sony is currently dealing with a gender discrimination class-action lawsuit that it was served in November last year. The last we heard about this case is that Sony wanted it thrown out of court over a lack of specific facts, but today it’s been revealed that eight more women have come forward with testimonies reporting men being favored for promotions, bullying from male colleagues, and a high turnover of female employees. Former program manager Kara Johnson even claims that “Sony is not equipped to appropriately handle toxic environments.”
Dead Space’s highly-anticipated reboot has reportedly been delayed to 2023, according to a new report from VentureBeat. While a release window hadn’t been announced when it was first revealed last year, the report claims that EA had originally wanted to launch the game at some point in October this year – it is the spookiest month after all. This date was apparently an internal target, one that EA Motive sounds like it’s not going to hit.
If you’ve ever wanted to visit Super Nintendo World but didn’t feel like traveling half away across the planet to do so, you’re in luck as the first Super Nintendo World in the US is opening up next year in Hollywood. It won’t be as big as the park in Japan, but Nintendo fans in the US will soon be able to visit the Mushroom Kingdom without having to pay for expensive flights. We here in Europe can only dream of visiting Toad’s Cafe.
Onto the Elden Ring stuff now and speedrunners continue to impress by continuously setting ridiculous completion times in FromSoftware’s open-world masterpiece. We now have two speedrunners who have completed Elden Ring in under an hour, the first being LilAggy in 59 minutes and 38 seconds. However, that was quickly topped by Distortion2 who posted a time of 49 minutes and 29 seconds earlier today. It’s amazing to see people finishing Elden Ring in the same amount of time it takes for me to decide what class I’m going with.
Finally, a recent interview with Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki revealed that he was actually really “anxious” about the game’s launch, explaining that he never gets used to it. While Miyazaki knew that Elden Ring would be the “largest-scale ever” for one of FromSoftware’s titles, he still didn’t expect the incredible reception the game had, outselling many massive, long-running titles. Now the game is out, Miyazaki and his team definitely deserve to bask in the praise.
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Joshua Robertson is a News Writer for TheGamer, based in Barnsley, England. When not playing or writing about Pokemon, Yakuza, or Fallout, he can usually be found spending too much time on Twitter @JoshRobertson97.
