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Activision-Blizzard Lawsuit - Related to this, Nintendo is also changing Mario's name

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WGN WORLD NEWS POLITICS BUSINESS TECH CELEBS POPULAR FAVORITE POPULAR TWITTER Nintendo is changing Mario's name O Sun, 29 Aug 2021 y Tweet A Share 0 O Sat, 28 Aug 2021 Expedition crew believe they've accidentally discovered world's northernmost island O Fri, 27 Aug 2021 Three cups of coffee a day 'can lower risk of stroke and heart disease' O Fri, 27 Aug 2021 Tim Cook paid $750m bonus after presiding over soaring Apple share price O Fri, 27 Aug 2021 Apple relaxes App Store rules to settle lawsuit ahead of Fortnite ruling O Fri, 27 Aug 2021 Ancient woman's DNA challenges scientists' long- held theories about early After sexual harassment allegations for businessman Mario Segale, Nintendo is changing the name of their mascot Mario Arnold Segale, businessman and real estate developer from Seattle, WA, who died in 2018, was humans recently exposed as a sex offender after multiple allegations that came years after his death, Mario Segale was known for renting a warehouse for the videogame company Nintendo during their early days of arcades O Wed, 25 Aug 2021 in the 1980s, and for being the origin of the name of the character Mario, the mascot of Nintendo and main OnlyFans scraps new policy banning 'sexually explicit' character of the best-selling videogame franchise of all time. content After Mario Segale's sex crimes were made public, fans of Nintendo and the Super Mario franchise, called on social media for the name of the character Mario to be changed, after a lengthy campaign on the internet, O Thu, 26 Aug 2021 Nintendo agreed, and announced today that the character Mario is going to have a different name, to Rocket launches from UK distance the character from the real Mario Segale. ahead of planned spaceport opening Nintendo also revealed that the process will be costly, not only all the games with the character from now on, no longer will call the character Mario and will use a new name, yet to be announced, but millions will be spent to change all the previous games released with the character, removing or replacing all mentions of the "Mario" name, including their titles, this process will also delay dozens of games currently in development at Nintendo, but Nintendo's CEO, Shuntaro Furukawa, states that "We at Nintendo, need to keep our image clean, we cannot keep honoring a sexual predator, we have to make those changes because the symbol of our company cannot be tied to a criminal". After the announcement, players around the world thanked Nintendo on social media for following their demands, but expressed interest in also changing the name of the character Kirby, who is also named after a real deceased person, John Joseph Kirby Jr., an attorney most known for winning a case against Universal Studios in 1984, Universal sued Nintendo for claiming the arcade game Donkey Kong and also the eponymous character were plagiarism of the movie King Kong, after winning, Nintendo decided to honor the attorney by naming a character after him, while John Kirby was not involved in any sex scandal, he is known for defending many corporations disliked by the public, and that caused the outrage, Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the Kirby franchise, insists that the name is just a coincidence.

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