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"This act is intended to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine" - Umurangi Generation studio blocks new game Penguin Colony from being sold in Israel
Origame Digital, the studio behind 2020's critically acclaimed Umurangi Generation , has just released a new game but banned it from being sold in Israel.
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Origame Digital, the studio behind Umurangi Generation, launched a new title called Penguin Colony, a Lovecraftian horror experienced through the eyes of a penguin and based on H.P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness.” The studio has deliberately blocked the game from being sold in Israel as a gesture of solidarity with Palestine. Fellow Traveller, the publisher, confirmed the Israeli delisting in a Steam community thread that was started by a user living in Israel who asked whether the game had been removed.
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