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Ubisoft apologises for 'insensitive' promo for Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad

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Was 2020 the best time to launch a game that features a government-sponsored agency violently suppressing public protest on the pretext of subverting some new world order conspiracy?

So much, so standard-issue Tom Clancy super-patriotic military fetish porn. But oops, Umbra’s icon in the trailer is a raised fist – an icon associated with black civil rights movements in the US, and most recently, Black Lives Matter. You know, the same

thing that’s been cycling on every 24-hour news channel since May, so it’s not like some abstract concept.

This was, not unexpectedly, controversial. Even Ubisoft employees and contract workers were appalled.— Ólafur Waage Angry about the use of the black power fist here. I worked on the character bios and was informed that UMBRA is supposed to be a James Bond villain organisation, not something that looks like what the q conspiracy people think is happening. Irresponsibly bad optics.

 

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