Intellectual Property Law

Konami Drops Six Days in Fallujah_

By Chris Bennett, Tudor Carsten, Michael R. Coburn, Sarah Dale-Harris, Pablo Guzman, Danielle (Dani) Lemon, Chris Metcalfe and David Spratley

Japanese video game publisher Konami has decided not to publish the controversial game Six Days in Fallujah, developed by Atomic Games. The game re-enacts the Second Battle of Fallujah which took place in late 2004 during the Iraq War. The battle caused considerable human and physical damage. From the onset, both anti-war and pro-military groups have criticised the game, saying that it was too soon after the War to release it. Six Days in Fallujah was developed in conjunction with US Marines who took part in the actual battle and is intended to give players a sense of what it was actually like to fight in the conflict. Atomic Games has not yet said whether it will try to find another publisher.

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Full post as published by Video Game Law Blog on April 30, 2009 (boomark / email).