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Valve faces backlash for allowing school-shooting game on Steam

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Valve has got itself into hot water for allowing a game, which allows you to « hunt and destroy » children in a school-shooting, on Steam. The developer says not to take the title too « seriously ».
Valve has always had trouble with censorship on its Steam gaming platform. Back in 2014, it faced backlash for removing a game which allowed you to play as a mass murderer from Steam. The criticism regarding the controversial move peaked to a level such that Gabe Newell himself apologized and reinstated the Greenlight status of the title.
A few days ago, the company got into hot water for attempting to censor anime-style visual novel games. Now it has come under fire for allowing a game centered on a school shooting on its platform.
Active Shooter, developed by Revived Games and published by ACID, allows you to take control of an « Elite S. W. A. T member » or the shooter himself. The former allows you to extract civilians while the latter gives you the opportunity to « hunt and destroy » them.
Needless to say, the title, which is scheduled for release on June 6, has received lots of criticism from people around the globe. In a statement to the BBC, a spokesperson from Infer Trust – a charity which seeks to raise awareness regarding firearms misuse – had the following to say:
In response, the publisher has noted that its game does « not promote any sort of violence », saying that:
Although Active Shooter ‘s description warns that the game is not to be taken « seriously », given some recent tragic events, one has to question what possessed the developer to release a game which promotes hunting and shooting children as one of its primary components.
Source: BBC

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