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

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    That's exactly what I'm thinking and why I want to dig up more information. The situation is sus and it deserves the attention of someone who genuinely knows how to dig into information of this type.

    • CoralMarks [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Extremely sus that they don't even have a website it seems. I didn't mean to denigrate your concerns, if that is what it might come across like. I'm totally with you. sorry

        • CoralMarks [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Oh, okay, just wanted to make sure.

          Btw I looked up that CEO Peter Tamte and on LinkedIn it says that he works at Victura as CEO since 2016.
          And they don't even have a website or any social media in 4 years, very weird.

          Edit: One additional thing a former project of his, Destineer, actually has a CIA connection according to this article.

          From this interview:

          How did you become involved with In-Q-Tel?

          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.

          How do you go about designing a training simulation?

          It’s really a mixture of both technology and subject matter expertise. Although we have acquired substantial subject matter expertise through our work with the government, we still work very, very closely with soldiers, Marines, intelligence, and law enforcement officers to build in accuracy and training effectiveness.

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

            👁️

            Also right after taking this CIA money Destineer acquired Atomic Games, the original developers of Six Days in Fallujah. Peter Tamte then became president/CEO of Atomic Games, leaving Paul Rinde to take over Destineer. This entire thing is extremely suspect.

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

      Ok so Peter Tamte (CEO of Victura games) has a long history. He was vice President of Bungie until 2001, until he formed Destineer, his own game publisher. Destineer worked closely with the US marines to create Close Combat: First to Fight, which caught the CIA's attention in the form of In-Q-Tel, a CIA funded venture capital firm. In-Q-Tel decide to invest in Destineer, revealed by Peter Tamte in June 2005.

      Just a month earlier in May 2005 Destineer acquires Atomic Games, the developers of the original version of Six Days in Fallujah. Some time later that year (timeline is unclear) Peter Tamte becomes CEO of Atomic Games and leaves Paul Rinde in charge of Destineer. Atomic Games and Destineer work on Six Days in Fallujah until April 2009 when Konami dropped it.

      So in sort the game Six Days in Fallujah has always had links to CIA funding and Peter Tamte has been really invested in this game, to the point of leaving the company he created to be in charge of it's development, since the In-Q-Tel investment. Really suspicious.