Episode 58: Games Media Label Call of Duty: Vanguard as Islamophobic

Call of Duty: Vanguard has gotten flack this past week, and not just for being another totally boring cash grab of a shooter. Kotaku and others called the game Islamophobic for daring to use pages of the Quran as set dressing, despite the fact entire games openly mock Christianity without so much as a complaint from anyone. We discuss this hypocrisy along with Kotaku’s ironic complaint that Vanguard is too woke, Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans’ bizarre and desperate desire to see two animal characters officially become gay lovers, trans people getting offended over Forza Horizon 5 “deadnaming” them, and GamesBeat’s surprising advocation for diversity of thought in the games industry.