Czech game developer Bohemia Interactive has once again had to address the fact that footage of Arma 3 is being used as fake news about the Israel-Palestine conflict. In a post on Twitter , the co…

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    1 year ago

    Despite the context of the game they have always carried an anti-war message, in every game

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    Footage from Arma 3 has been used repeatedly across all sorts of propaganda for many years. It’s one of the best mil sim games ever created, even some US govt contractors that build sim training modules are impressed by how accurate some of it looks.

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    While absolutely fucked it’s being used for this, your game being so realistic that it can be used to create actual war propaganda is pretty impressive.

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    1 year ago

    It’s fine, Hamas also uses scenes from movies in their propaganda all the time.