Xbox

Confederate Army Uniforms Pulled From Xbox Avatar Marketplace

Microsoft removed a Confederate soldier’s uniform and cap from an Xbox Live avatar items collection, following complaints from users about what the symbols represent.


July 4, 2011
Xbox

Dress Up Your Xbox Live Avatar Like A Confederate On July 4

While I don’t read any statements or endorsements of historical viewpoints behind this, Microsoft had to figure someone would notice that it’s now selling a Confederate Army uniform for your Xbox Live avatar’s virtual dress-up and call it out as a borderline offensive gesture. One of our readers saw it, and did.


August 11, 2010
News

The Two Sides Of Brink’s Civil War

There ain’t no good guys, and there ain’t no bad guys. There’s just the revolutionaries and the security forces, and they just disagree with bullets in this first developer diary for Bethesda’s Brink.