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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 intro cinematic is "not intended to reference or trivialise" real-world South Korean crowd crush, Activision say amid reported backlash

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 intro cinematic is "not intended to reference or trivialise" real-world South Korean crowd crush, Activision say amid reported backlash

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Activision have responded to Korean backlash against Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's intro cinematic.

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…due to the use of some real world news footage from a 2022 crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district which killed around 150 people.

It’s the first sentence of the article.
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  Sure is! My question stands though.

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