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konami cans controversial six days in fallujah
technabob — ... stationed in Iraq, many felt the battles were simply too recent for treatment in a video game, and the complaints flooded in. Games about war are certainly nothing new–in fact, there’s a glut of such titles–but games set in the Middle East tend to avoid the types of recreations we say in, say, World War II-themed games. For now, it seems the second Iraq war may be limited to examination in books and movies… unless someone else picks up the game. [Asahi via NeoGAF] ...

Konami pulls the plug on Iraq War video game
CrunchGear — After heaps of protest, Konami will no longer publish Atomic Games’ Six Days in Fallujah, citing “reaction to the video game in the United State.” Now, Atomic Games could try to find another publisher, but that’s easier said than done. Obviously. Konami doesn’t seem to know what it had gotten itself into. It told a Japanese newspaper that it didn’t know the connection between Atomic Games and the U.S. military. As far as Konami knew, apparently, Atomic Games could have done all its research via old episodes of Male ...

Konami pulls "Six Days in Fallujah" video game
Tech Digest — ... is apparently four years when you're still fighting the same war. I say it's surprising because the cynical side of me though the media circus of a few weeks back was just some kind of PR stunt to make people buy the game but if it was it's backfired in a rather large way. Scores of ex-servicemen complained despite the title going out of its way to use authentic materials for a full account of what it was like to be there and now it appears that all the work was for nought. (via Asahi) ...

Is it too soon for a realistic Iraq War game?
Crave: The gadget blog — ... According to a report by Japanese newspaper Asahi, which cited an unnamed public-relations representative, the negative reaction to the game compelled Konami to drop it. (Editors' note: the report is now missing from the Asahi Web site, and although Konami did not reply to a request for comment, the game title is missing from ...