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Press-only Animal Crossing features N-word
Press-only Animal Crossing features N-word
A pre-played version of 2005's Animal Crossing: Wild World for DS, sent out to media outlets to encourage connectivity with the recent Animal Crossing release for Wii, contains at least one shocking addition, reports MTV Multiplayer . Importing the saved data from the DS cartridge sent by ...
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Racial slur found in press copy of Animal Crossing
GameCritics.com - games. culture. criticism. video game reviews for xbox 360 wii ps3 ds psp ps2 console pc — This is ironic and funny to us, but no doubt embarrassing for Nintendo. Here is a company that limits its games by way of complicated friend codes, weak online features and even its hardware like Wii Speak so as to keep the horrible realities of the online world away from its (apparently) fragile and corruptible userbase. But within one of the special press-only Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS) cards, you find a racial slur... created by one of the people (its unclear who) hired to play the DS game. Animal Crossing Wild World sports N-word A pre-played version of 2005's ...

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