Last week, Nintendo fans anticipating the release of the game Tomodachi Life took to social media to show their displeasure with the marriage feature within the game. Tomodachi Life is a life simulation game, in which relationships, marriages, and families play a key role, but marriage between two characters of the same gender is not allowed. While Nintendo initially responded matter-of-factly, saying \the relationship options in the game represent a playful alternate world rather than a real-life simulation…The ability for same-sex relationships to occur in the game was not part of the original game that launched in Japan,\ they are now changing their tune. In a statement released by Nintendo this weekend, they apologized for excluding same-sex relationships in Tomodachi: