Nintendo insists that Paper Mario: Color Splash joke wasn’t about Gamergate [update]

Nintendo has found itself in another controversy, but the company is claiming innocence.

During the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles last week, Nintendo streamed gameplay demos and more via its Treehouse: Live shows. The steam’s name comes Nintendo’s Treehouse group, which handles localization for the company. In one of these segments, the company showed off Paper Mario: Color Splash. On June 22, Zoë Quinn, a game developer who was the first target of the Gamergate group (which has frequently targeted woman in the industry with harassment and threats), showed two screenshots from the segment that seemed to poke fun at her situation.