{"id":111215,"date":"2016-11-22T07:18:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T05:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=111215"},"modified":"2016-11-22T10:13:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T08:13:19","slug":"microsoft-apologises-for-perceived-racial-slur-in-xbox-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/111215-microsoft-apologises-for-perceived-racial-slur-in-xbox-email","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft apologises for perceived racial slur in Xbox email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has apologised for a perceived racial slur in its latest Dead Rising 4 promotional email.<\/p>\n<p>The email contained zombies singing Christmas Carols, and the email had the subject line \u201cNNNNGGGHHHAAAA\u201d, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/microsoft-apologizes-for-perceived-racial-slur-in-xbox-1789241852\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that the subject was meant to convey the sound a zombie makes, however several gamers pointed out that when saying the word out loud, it sounded like a racial slur.<\/p>\n<p>It was simply a genuine mistake, but credit to Microsoft for acting so quickly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dead-Rising.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-111221\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dead-Rising.jpg\" alt=\"dead-rising\" width=\"800\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dead-Rising.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dead-Rising-768x443.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today we sent a DR4 email where a zombie roar was interpreted by many as a racial slur. We apologize and promise to do better next time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \/ Larry Hryb \/ + 1m (@majornelson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/majornelson\/status\/800854780578918402\">November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/110682-xbox-turns-15-the-best-15-games-released-on-xbox.html\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox turns 15: The best 15 games released on Xbox<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has apologised for an email sent to Xbox gamers, which some perceived as racist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":111223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,19423,19547,91,23335],"class_list":["post-111215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-dead-rising-4","tag-email","tag-microsoft","tag-slur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111225,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111215\/revisions\/111225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}