GDQ Banned Recreation Checklist Provides Harry Potter Titles

Video games Accomplished Fast (GDQ), the group that holds speedrun marathons that increase cash for a wide range of charities, has up to date its banned recreation listing to incorporate Hogwarts Legacy and all Harry Potter titles. Nonetheless, the corporate has additionally stated this ban shall be “topic to additional overview sooner or later.”

Why have been the Harry Potter video games banned from GDQ?

Harry Potter video games have been allowed in earlier GDQ occasions and the corporate is but to clarify to The Gamer why they’ve banned the titles now. Nonetheless, it’s believed to be linked to the controversy surrounding Harry Potter creator JK Rowling’s feedback on the transgender neighborhood that led one Hogwarts Legacy developer to boycott the sport fully and the director to make clear that “the workforce made Hogwarts Legacy for everybody.”

The GDQ banned recreation listing additionally consists of video games with overly sexual content material and gratuitous violence, which shouldn’t come as a lot of a shock for an occasion that’s aimed on being little one pleasant:

Video games with an ESRB ranking of Adults Solely.
Any recreation that’s prohibited on twitch
Air Management
America’s Most Needed
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
5 Nights at Freddy’s Sequence
Frog Fractions
God of Struggle (2005)
Harry Potter Sequence, together with Hogwarts Legacy*
Huniepop Sequence
Ion Fury
Kurovadis
Eroico
Natsuiro Excessive College: Seishun Hakusho
Rocko’s Quest

GDQ’s subsequent occasion would be the Summer season Video games Accomplished Fast marathon in Could, however don’t anticipate to see Hogwarts Legacy included within the schedule anytime quickly.