Jagged Alliance 3 developers decline to comment on use of ableist slur

Strategy game Jagged Alliance 3 launches later this week, and when it does it will launch with a character using an ableist slur to describe a differently abled friend. The character, Headshot Hue, hangs out in a bar in one of the game’s early areas and uses it to describe his former mercenary colleague, Lurch, who runs one of the in-game bars. If asked “what’s wrong with Lurch”, Hue will explain that Lurch too was the victim of the same

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