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In Real Life

Entertainment And Fun Aren’t The Same Thing

He may switch a few words around, but what commenter DunnCarnage is basically saying in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku is that a game doesn’t have to be fun to be entertaining, and vice-versa.

December 22, 2010
PC

Auschwitz Game Creator Yanks Wolfenstein Mod Under Pressure

Sonderkommando Revolt, the video game mod that reimagines an Auschwitz uprising as a bloody, pixelated shooter, may never see release, according to the project’s lead creator. He blames the “emotional trauma” of media attention for its demise.

December 17, 2010
In Real Life

The Sincerest Form Of Flattery

You can’t imagine how flattered we were today to discover that the Daily Mail doesn’t just read our little gaming site, they even like to sometimes “repurpose” our news.

December 15, 2010
News

How People Played A Holocaust Game

Coverage last week of the concentration camp first-person shooter Sonderkommando Revolt may have raised curiosity about how people would play a game about the Holocaust.

December 12, 2010
News

Anti-Defamation League Slams ‘Fun" Holocaust Video Game As Horrific And Inappropriate

A video game that depicts an uprising in a Nazi death camp has drawn harsh criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, which told Kotaku that the Holocaust should be off-limits for video games.

December 11, 2010

The Ugly Fantasies Of Revenge

Beyond Holocaust museums, Holocaust documentaries, and Holocaust action movies we now have the Holocaust first-person shooter. This is our chance to virtually be an escaped Jewish prisoner of Auschwitz, heavily armed, with hundreds of Nazis in our sights. Catharsis?

News

Concentration Camp Game Was Meant To Be ‘Fun’

The developers of Sonderkommando Revolt, the video game set against a violent prisoner uprising in a Nazi concentration camp, reads like exploitative revenge fantasy. But its creator says the team behind the first-person shooter makes no political statement and has no agenda. It’s “blast the Nazis fun,” its maker says.

December 10, 2010
News

The Concentration Camp Video Game

An Israeli modder has turned a 1992 first-person shooter into a bloody tale of revenge in a Nazi concentration camp with Sonderkommando Revolt, which puts players in the role of an Auschwitz death camp prisoner on a killing rampage.

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