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Penguin Colony Developers Talk The BDS Talk And Walk The Walk By Banning The Game For Sale In Israel - Kotaku

Publisher description: The game also gives you one hell of a statement on the Palestinian genocide

NewsAPI | Oct 19, 2026 | Ash Parrish

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While there have been many attempts to take the industry to task for its silence regarding the genocide—members of Geoff Keighley’s now-shuttered Future Class attempted to have the industry’s biggest hype man address the issue the way he did for the war in Ukraine, sending an open letter to the Game Awards that went ignored, and the devs of Big Walk recently explained that the BDS movement is the reason their game isn’t for sale on Xbox—this is most direct statement I’ve seen on the topic within a game.

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