Terrorist games linked to Russian airport bomb: "The Russian media have begun to explore possible links between a computer game called Call of Duty and this week's deadly Moscow airport bombing.
A news report from Russia Today television has compared a famous airport scene from the game with the aftermath of the bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in which 35 people were killed.
Even before its release 2009, the enormously popular Activision game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, began attracting controversy after leaked footage revealed players could join a group of Russian ultra-nationalist terrorists planning to massacre civilians in an airport.
Advertisement: Story continues below The Russian airport scene in Modern Warfare 2 differs substantially from this week's attack in that it involved machine guns rather than a bomb blast, which officials now suspect were carried out by a male and female suicide bomber. Even so, comparisons between the game and this week's bombing were inevitable."
A news report from Russia Today television has compared a famous airport scene from the game with the aftermath of the bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in which 35 people were killed.
Even before its release 2009, the enormously popular Activision game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, began attracting controversy after leaked footage revealed players could join a group of Russian ultra-nationalist terrorists planning to massacre civilians in an airport.
Advertisement: Story continues below The Russian airport scene in Modern Warfare 2 differs substantially from this week's attack in that it involved machine guns rather than a bomb blast, which officials now suspect were carried out by a male and female suicide bomber. Even so, comparisons between the game and this week's bombing were inevitable."
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