Quick searches and I couldn't find the original Kotaku article that they are apparently citing. So something is telling me this is a joke (since it was from Kotaku Australia meaning it is already April 1st there).

Furthermore, it'd be highly surprising if a Japanese video game company would make the lead male gay. Highly surprising. Japan is not the most forward country when it comes to gay rights. Most employers can still fire you for being gay, unless you live in the Tokyo District and perhaps a few other places. So yeah, it seems unlike. Also, considering how homosexual characters tend to be treated, there won't be anything explicit anyways. You'd be lucky if he had a boyfriend, let alone if they held hands or said "I love you".

Quote Originally Posted by Elpizo
Interest in the game: -200% (And before you scream homophobe, people can be gay as much as they want, but that doesn't mean I have to like it in the games I play.)
I live in a heteronormative society where I am constantly exposed to heterosexuality, let alone in most media sources. Where I am constantly assumed to be straight or expected to fulfil the role of a straight man. Where gender binaries can be so forcibly constricted that anything outside of it considered deviant, or wrong. In some parts of the world, I could be arrested or killed without second thought. I could go on and on, but I think I've made my point. My point is: so what if you have to deal with one gay character in a video game? Homosexuals live everyday in face of heterosexuality because it is the majority and default. We don't always like it, but we have to live with it lest be hermits.

Also, the previous paragraph was intentionally hyperbolic, a bit facetious and a bit of playing devil's advocate. In other words, I wasn't being overly serious about what I was saying.

That said, I still think this is an April Fool's joke.