“Make good games, don’t make a contemporary political statement,” says Helldivers 2 director, as players massacre infected citizens for leaders worried about “anti-democratic brainwashing” | Gaming

Sigh. Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead’s CCO and longtime figurehead Johan Pilestedt has tweeted that his philosophy is to “make good games, don’t make a contemporary political statement”. Which, you know, is a bit of a weird thing to say when a whole bunch of games – Helldivers 2 for example – clearly manage to easily be good and explore political themes by their very nature.

This line from Pilestedt came amid a chat with fans about politics and “DEI” – the latter being the diversity and inclusion stuff that internet idiots who think Fight Club is just about a club for fights rather than having any kind of subtext believe is ruining everything nowadays – in games. As you can imagine, intelligent points were made…more

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