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July 4, 2016 U.S.A. THE ASIAN REPORTER n Page 7 At E3, game makers introduce more diverse heroes By Derrik J. Lang GAMING GAINS. A display for Watch Dogs 2, AP Entertainment Writer an upcoming open world action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft, is seen at the Electronic OS ANGELES — After introducing Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. After introducing Lthe world to several new female the world to several new female heroes at last year’s heroes at last year’s Electronic Electronic Entertainment Expo, story-driven game Entertainment Expo (E3), story-driven makers at a gathering of the interactive industry are game makers at June’s gathering of the uncharacteristically putting more racially diverse interactive industry are uncharacteristi- protagonists front and center in their games. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) cally putting more racially diverse pro- tagonists front and center in their games. family drama Gone Home casts players as From an Indian-American space dweller Indian-American space-faring free agent in Tacoma to a biracial Vietnam War Amy Ferrier. She arrives at her new veteran in Mafia III, the heroes and assignment on the space station Tacoma to anti-heroes appearing on the massive discover its diverse six-person crew has posters and screens across the Los Angeles disappeared. Ferrier, who originally hails Convention Center represented more from California, must rely on Tacoma’s ethnicities than have been showcased in augmented reality system to retrace their the past. steps and find out what happened. “We wanted to tell a very different Mafia Marcus Holloway, Watch Dogs 2 story this time,” said Christoph Aiden Pierce, the gruff vengeance- Hartmann, president of Mafia publisher seeking Chicagoan from the original 2K Games. “That meant getting away from Watch Dogs, has been replaced with classic Godfather fare with a bunch of the Ku Klux Klan along the way. FIFA 17 players will guide a computer- Marcus Holloway, a more upbeat African- Italian characters. Once we decided to set Alex Hunter, FIFA 17 generated version of Hunter in the soccer American vigilante hacker in the San the game in New Orleans in 1968, it just A real — not virtual — black man series’ first-ever story mode. From picking Francisco-set sequel. During a demo of the made sense for the character to be an stepped on stage at Electronic Arts’ E3 a team to conducting post-game inter- Ubisoft game, the Oakland-born anti-hero African-American war vet.” presentation and introduced himself as views, Hunter’s future is in players’ hands. breaks into a crooked politician’s pent- For decades, when players weren’t able Alex Hunter, a humble English chap with Amy Ferrier, Tacoma house all while jamming to Eric B. and to pick their own protagonist’s skin color or dreams of bending it like David Beckham. The follow-up to Fullbright’s voyeuristic Rakim’s Don’t Sweat The Technique. background, the interactive medium has Minority population growth strongest in Minnesota China city holds dog-meat- mostly focused on telling stories of white ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows eating festival despite protests leading men and women, relegating most of the recent population growth in Minnesota comes from people of Continued from page 4 characters of other ethnicities to villainous color. or supporting roles. That’s changing. forced to take the festival indoors and large-scale While 4.4 million of Minnesota’s 5.2 million residents are white, figures “At the end of the day, this is the group open air dog-meat consumption is no longer seen. show 87 percent of population growth last year came from people who are that we’re interested in seeing on screen,” Along with the question of animal cruelty, dog meat African American, Asian, American Indian, or Hispanic. said Karla Zimonja, co-founder of Tacoma also poses a risk to human health by spreading Andi Egbert, the assistant director of the Minnesota State Demographic developer Fullbright. “It’s always more diseases such as trichinellosis, rabies, and cholera, Center, told Minnesota Public Radio News that the growth comes from a interesting to pay attention to things that the Humane Society says. combination of immigration and higher birth rates in those population don’t get a lot of attention in media. This is Guangxi is already one of China’s five worst areas segments. a direction that hasn’t really been explored affected by human rabies, and Yulin ranks as one of The figures also show the median age in Minnesota is 37.9 years. in video games, so we wanted to explore it.” the top 10 Chinese cities in terms of cases, the q A look at E3’s newest stars: organization says. Lincoln Clay, Mafia III Springfield health system to hire 100 nurses from overseas Mafia III is heading South to a locale SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Health system CoxHealth says it plans to hire SPiLt ink Gallery inspired by New Orleans in the ’60s about 100 nurses from overseas in the next year. following installments centered on Italian- The Springfield-based nonprofit announced in a news release that most of Acrylic American gangsters in open-world the nurses will come from the Philippines, with the first hires expected to Colour Pencil versions of New York, Chicago, and San arrive in the fall. 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