Author: Game Infliction

The English voice actor for Genshin Impact character Tighnari, Elliot Gindi, has been accused of grooming underage fans, transphobic behavior, and emotional abuse by moderators of his Twitch and Discord server. Gindi has since admitted that numerous screenshotted chatlogs demonstrating him engaging in such behavior are real, and both he and Genshin developer HoYoverse have issued statements.

The chatlogs were posted to Twitter by FretCore and phiotan, two of Gindi’s moderators. FretCore shared a 21-page Google Doc containing screenshots that show multiple victims coming forward to mods about Gindi’s behavior, which included asking for inappropriate photos and videos, pursuing relationships with underage individuals, sending sexual content, and making diminishing or invalidating remarks toward multiple individuals for being transgender or asexual, including refusing to acknowledge their pronouns. He was also accused of streaming in his underwear repeatedly, allegedly standing up and stretching on camera while in this state in one situation.

In a Twitlonger apology post, Gindi has acknowledged that all of the screenshots were real, and affirmed that he also engaged in emotional manipulation by threatening suicide if victims came forward. He admits to streaming in his underwear, though he denies it had a sexual intent. Gindi also denies “knowingly” engaging in inappropriate behavior with those who were underage, or disrespecting pronouns changes. Gindi has since stepped away from social media.

Genshin Impact developer HoYoverse has issued a statement to GamesRadar+:

We deeply regret the harm and damage that happened to our fans, gamers, community and anyone affected. Both our internal teams and external partners including our voice acting studio have been working together on an urgent solution. And we will keep you posted on the progress.

Since the accusations came to light, a number of Genshin Impact voice actors have come forward to denounce Gindi’s behavior and support victims, including Aether voice actor Zach Aguilar, Hu Tao actor Brianna Knickerbocker, Raiden Shogun actor Anne Yatco, Xiangling actor Jackie Lastra, Cyno actor Alejandro Saab, and Kaeya actor Josey Montana McCoy.

“Disappointed and angry,” said Aguilar. “I have removed the stream with Elliot and will no longer be associating with him. I refuse to give someone like this a platform in any way. To use your power this way over fans is disgusting and shameful. My heart goes out for the victims of this situation.”

Tighnari was added to Genshin Impact in the most recent major patch 3.0, which added the continent of Sumaru, the Dendro element and featured Tighnari as one of the first playable characters to use Dendro. It is unclear at this time whether or not he will be recast.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

The Division 2 development team has notified players that a recent update has caused an error that is now preventing the team from updating the game at all.

The Division 2 development team took to Twitter to explain the unfortunate situation, saying it was caused when they were trying to deal with a localization issue. While they were fixing that particular problem, another one popped up that “brought down the build generation system for The Division 2.” This, in turn, broke the whole updating system.

A message from #TheDivision2 team. pic.twitter.com/KuPiz7t9PL

— Tom Clancy’s The Division (@TheDivisionGame) February 9, 2023

“Dear Agents, last week, we shared news that the season would be delayed due to a localization issue,” The Division 2 development team wrote. “This past Saturday, in the process of creating the update which would resolve the issue, we encountered an error that brought down the build generation system for The Division 2. As a result, we cannot update the game until this system has been rebuilt.”

In the past, when a season was delayed, the team had been able to extend activities from the previous season. However, they are unable to do this as they can, once again, make no updates to the game until “the build generation system is restored.”

“We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible,” the team wrote. “We have made good progress over the last 96 hours and have been able to restore critical aspects of the system and will share the timeline for resolution when available. We deeply appreciate your understanding and patience and will share our in-game compensation plan details soon.”

The Division 2 was getting ready to begin Season 11: Reign of Fire on February 7, and hopefully it won’t be too long to wait for its actual launch. The team promised another update will arrive tomorrow, February 10, so stay tuned The Division 2’s Twitter account and IGN for the latest updates.

For more, check out the latest details on the free-to-play The Division Heartland and why Ubisoft changed its mind and began planning more content for The Division 2 in 2021.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

After years of smaller updates, Team Fortress 2 is set to get a major update this summer that will add items, maps, taunts, Steam Workshop Creators’ content, and much more.

The Team Fortress 2 team shared the update in a blog, and addressed it mainly to Steam Workshop Creators.

“Steam Workshop Creators, can we have your attention please,” The blog reads. “The following message is so urgent, so time-sensitive, we made the executive decision to skip TikTok and Twitter entirely and break the glass on the most bleeding-edge communication technology available. Welcome to the future. Welcome… to a ‘blog-post.'”

After the funny intro, it went on to confirm that, while “the last few Team Fortress summer events have only been item updates,” there are much bigger plans in store for this year.

“We’re planning on shipping a full-on update-sized update — with items, maps, taunts, unusual effects, war paints and who knows what else?! Which means we need Steam Workshop content! YOUR Steam Workshop content,” The TF2 team said.

For those interested, be sure to get your submissions into the Steam Workshop by May 1 so they can be “considered for this as-yet-unnamed, un-themed, but still very exciting summer-situated (but not summer-themed) (unless you wanted to develop summer-themed stuff) update.”

As previously mentioned, Team Fortress 2 has been getting small updates over the past few years, and it got a bigger Jungle Inferno update in 2017 that added a new official map, five community maps, new taunts, war paint, contracts, and more.

The smaller updates have been important, however, as Team Fortress 2 was dealing with a botting problem that rendered the game actually unplayable in 2022.

Team Fortress 2 was first released in 2007 and, in our review, we said, “With its powerful artistic style and blazingly quick, yet accessible gameplay, it’s enough to melt the icy cynicism imprisoning the hearts of even the most jaded among us.”

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.