School shooter game removed from sale
A US video game company has withdrawn a game that simulated a school shooting amid fierce criticism from parents of shooting victims and from politicians.
The game, "Active Shooter," was to be released by Valve Corp. of Bellevue, Washington, on June 6 on its digital distribution platform Steam.
But Valve said in a statement to several media outlets that it was cancelling the release of the game created by developer Revived Games and publisher ACID.
"This developer and publisher is, in fact, a person calling himself Ata Berdiyev, who had previously been removed last fall," Valve said.
"Ata is a troll, with a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation," Valve said.
"We are not going to do business with people who act like this towards our customers or Valve.
"The broader conversation about Steam's content policies is one that we'll be addressing soon," the company added.
Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter, Jaime, 14, was killed in the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, welcomed the removal of the game as "amazing news."
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