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One of the rare bits of humorous content in Watch Dogs: Legion that actually sticks the landing are the in-game podcasts and radio shows featuring dry British hosts commenting on the state of dystopian London. Unfortunately for Helen Lewis, a real-life writer for The Atlantic who lends her voice talent to a couple of those in-game audio files, her statements on gender are prompting Ubisoft to remove her from the game. In 2017, Lewis wrote an opinion piece for The Times<\/a> that was criticized for being transphobic, and her subsequent posts on The New Statesman<\/a> and Twitter continued in that vein, all of which created a dust-up on social media at the time and when it was learned that she would be in the latest Watch Dogs. Ubisoft claims that they were unaware of the writer’s controversial history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The development team worked with an external producer to select speaker profiles for these podcasts and were not aware of the controversy at the time of booking or recording. While the in-game podcasters are following a pre-approved script and are not speaking in their own name or with their own opinions, we understand this collaboration itself may be seen as offensive and we deeply regret any hurt this has caused.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Helen Lewis performs in two installments of\u00a0Watch Dogs: Legion’s BuccanEar podcast, which will be removed from the game shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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