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Video Games Weekly: Grand Theft Auto is no friend to the queer community

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Video Games Weekly is a space for short essays, observations and ramblings about video game trends and related topics.

This week 's column is broken into two parts, including some headlines from outside of Engadget .

The first part contains the video game stories that you need to know about the past week .

Take-Two removed all references to diversity and inclusion in its annual investor report.

Carrie Patel has joined Night School , the studio behind the Oxenfree series, as a game director.

Bungie only revealed Marathon in April , but the game is already enduring a rocky pre-launch period.

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