Six Days in Fallujah ‘not trying to make a political commentary,’ creator says
www.polygon.com
An interview with the publisher of the controversial Iraq War shooter

What the fuck is it with Americans and "trying to make obviously political things not political"

once again, the Onion serving up heaps of inspiration for American media

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I remember when Konami first announced this way back when and I didn't like the look of it and I was a lib back then. Kojima I hope told them to fuck off with this bullshit.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah Konami dropped the game in 2009 lol. It's now being picked up by a publisher called "Victura", which has no previous games, social media or website but has had a CEO (Peter Tamte) there for 4 years doing fuck all I guess?

      Peter Tamte was the Vice President of Bungie until 2001 when he formed his own video game development company, Destineer, which mainly ported windows games to macs. They created a game in 2005 with the US marines called Close Combat: First to Fight, which is basically the Syrian civil war but in Lebanon.

      A month after the release of this game Peter Tamte admits to taking money and signing a deal with CIA venture capital firm In-Q-Tel. Around this time Destineer acquires Atomic Games, the developers of the original version of Six Days in Fallujah. Peter Tamte now becomes CEO of Atomic Games and Paul Rinde takes over Destineer. The two developers work on the game until it is dropped by Konami in 2009.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          It's literally a CIA front from 1999 lol, but yeah this game has always had CIA ties in terms of its developers from the beginning. 99% chance it's being astroturfed by the CIA again to try whitewash the war crimes in Iraq.

          • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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            4 years ago

            Oh absolutely. Just like how CoD has ties with the pentagon and shit. Pretty much any american media about war has the military's fingerprints on it.

            • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              But this is the unique situation in which the CEO has openly admitted to taking CIA cash right after purchasing the rights to another game and their studio and electing himself CEO/president of that studio. Here's a quote from Peter Tamte about working with the CIA in 2005:

              In-Q-Tel saw the work we were doing for the Marine Corps and inquired about making a substantial investment in the company. This allowed us to expand our training business to begin building training systems for a large number of intelligence agencies.

              :illuminati: but unironically