Sure looks like it. One of the creators was also previously involved in gamergate.

The books already had clear antisemitism around the goblins, but they apparently ramped it up for this game.

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Cho Chang

Seamus Finnigan, the only Irish character, only appeared in scenes to either blow something up or be a dick to Harry. First scene in the franchise: he tried to turn water into rum and ending up exploding it. Final scene in the franchise: they were trying to bomb up a bridge during the war at hogwarts and the professor said something like "I do recall Mr. Finnigan has a knack for this sort of thing"

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From reddit:

"Kingsley Shacklebolt" is the name one of two black characters. The other black character's father left him when he was young.

Werewolf-disease (lycanthropy) has been explicitly confirmed by Rowling to be about HIV/AIDS. The two werewolf characters have strong, nearly uncontrollable urges to attack others and turn them into werewolves. One of them takes medication to reduce his urges. The other explicitly targets children, killing some and turning others into werewolves.

Rita Skeeter is woman who is described as being unattractive, having manly characteristics, and dresses in a way similar to a drag queen. She is a gossip, and is dishonest and duplicitous. She hovers in private spaces, and changes her body in order to spy on children. "Skeeter" is a nickname for mosquito.

The final boss is the leader of the goblins, who turns into a giant demonic lizard that you have to murder.

Also the goblins build magical war golems and you have to fight those.

:fry: what the fuck

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I was going to make a joke underplaying the connection by listing all of the anti-semitic tropes the goblins have, but even just listing them all out felt uncomfortably anti-semitic

Do you have a link? The only thing I found in a ddg was a reddit comment making the same allusion. Something about an in-game text?

I think g*mers just never had a chance because videogame the artform is predisposed towards being reactionary:

1. Game development requires a great deal of capital investment compared to something like pottery or painting or writing a novel. To develop a AAA game, you need hundreds of people using expensive software while to write a poem, you just need a pencil and paper and you technically don't even need that. This investment will impact an inherent class character on the artform regardless of the politics of the developers.

2. Game development by software development standards is actually really hard, which means the people who actually have the skills necessary are more likely than not to be college educated in a STEM major. In other words, they are more likely to come from a labor aristocrat or petty bourgeois background or otherwise rub shoulders with generic libertarian techbros in their professional and social lives.

3. The artform doesn't have a pre-capitalist origin, which means capitalist realism is completely baked into the artform. And it really doesn't help that the two major centers of gaming development, the US and Japan, are both neoliberal regimes. Compared that with poetry, which has existed millennia before capitalism and has revolutionary poets, among them Mao and Ho.

I think a similar argument could be made for movies and TV, and honestly as a whole, all three artforms are predisposed towards being reactionary. There's a reason why reactionaries tend to launch their culture war campaigns from these artforms. And if you try to search for the least reactionary/most revolutionary artform by applying the argument backwards, then the artform most predisposed towards being revolutionary is poetry, which also tracks with the amount of poems composed by revolutionaries.

This is my take as well because apparently this date was mentioned in the original books and J. K. Rowling has a strict zero effort policy when it comes to researching any real world information.

yeah that was my big question about the Corbyn antisemitism thing. A genuinely antisemitic politician in the UK could just be openly antisemitic and the british people would lap that shit up