“Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is a work of fiction that depicts the real events during the Golden Era of Pirates. “History is our playground in Assassin’s Creed,” Ubisoft said in a statement to the publication.

Ubisoft obviously felt this statement deserved a response, and handled it with all the dignity it could muster while still leaving room for plenty of withering, bone-dry sarcasm.

Statements like these, directed at fiction, make me believe there’s some sort of “DAYS SINCE LAST OUTRAGE” board posted at the PETA office, and heads (HUMAN ONLY) start rolling if it passes single digits. I don’t know which intern gets handed instructions to “write something angry” about video game animal abuse, but I can only imagine they’re fairly resentful of the interns that get handed plum assignments to write about actual, real-world, horrific animal abuse.

PETA encourages video game companies to create games that celebrate animals-not games that promote hurting and killing them. Whaling-that is, shooting whales with harpoons and leaving them to struggle for an hour or more before they die or are hacked apart while they are still alive-may seem like something out of the history books, but this bloody industry still goes on today in the face of international condemnation, and it’s disgraceful for any game to glorify it. Here’s what it had to say about the deadly digital whaling: Nope, it’s the fake killing of fake whales that has the group back in full statement-issuing pique. There’s plenty of assassinating and plundering on the way, it would appear, but none of that bothers PETA. Its latest target is none other than the latest Assassin’s Creed game, which, at this point, exists only as a trailer. Pokemon and Cooking Mama ) have backfired spectacularly. I’m not sure why it is that PETA feels it needs to pick fights with video games, but it continues to do so even after its last couple of efforts ( vs.

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