Yesterday, Nintendo of America’s president Doug Bowser sent retired an interior connection to employees acknowledging the “media sum involving claims made astir idiosyncratic conduct.” He wrote that “We person and volition ever analyse immoderate allegations we go alert of, and we are actively investigating these astir caller claims.”

This message, which Kotaku has viewed and which was shared with us by a root Kotaku has confirmed presently works for Nintendo, was posted to the company’s interior SharePoint account. (Kotaku has besides corroborated the message’s authenticity with 2 different existent Nintendo employees.) In the message, Bowser reassured existent employees that Nintendo was taking the allegations seriously.

“We person strict policies designed to support our employees and associates from inappropriate behaviour and expect afloat compliance with these policies by each who enactment for oregon with us.” Doug wrote. “We person and volition ever analyse immoderate allegations we go alert of, and we are actively investigating these astir caller claims.”

Bowser’s connection was posted connected the aforesaid time that Kotaku published an investigative report astir pistillate contractors who had experienced intersexual harassment portion moving arsenic crippled testers astatine Nintendo of America’s Redmond, Washington headquarters. Our sources accused 2 managers who enactment oregon had worked astatine Nintendo of workplace misconduct, and the study described an interior workplace civilization that was similar a “frat house.”

Last November, Bowser condemned the intersexual harassment allegations astatine Activision Blizzard arsenic “distressing and disturbing,” saying that “[sexual harassment and toxicity] tally antagonistic to my values arsenic good arsenic Nintendo’s beliefs, values and policies.” Several days later, Nintendo updated its firm governance document with a committedness to summation the fig of pistillate managers astatine the company.

“Please retrieve that our HR teams are present to enactment you,” wrote Bowser. “If you experience, person experienced, witness, oregon person witnessed thing concerning specified behaviour that is contrary to our Standards of Conduct, worker handbook, oregon Company Values, delight instantly interaction your HR Business Partner.” Kotaku reached retired to Nintendo for a comment, but did not person 1 by the clip of publication.