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Indie dev removes goblin tactics game from Xbox in solidarity with pro-Palestine boycott

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On Tuesday, Tenderfoot Tactics developer Ice Water Games removed the open-world RPG from the Xbox digital storefront as a way of showing support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement after the organizers added Microsoft to its list of boycotted targets two weeks ago. “We hope that Microsoft will listen to the voices of their workers and customers and stop all business with the criminal Israeli military, which w…

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A recently released title for Xbox Series X, "Tenderfoot Tactics", has been removed from the Microsoft Store. Ice Water Games developer has taken this step as part of a boycott against Microsoft to show solidarity with the Palestinian-led movement for boycott, disinvestment and sanctions (BDS). This boycott is directed against companies that do business with Israel, which the BDS movement regards as violating against international human rights. …

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A boycott movement targeting Microsoft and its Xbox branch is growing in the video game industry. Independent developers are removing their games from Xbox platforms, while calls for boycotts of future titles are increasing. At the origin of this mobilization: the BDS movement and Microsoft's business ties with Israel. Or when politics grabs the video game...

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XboxEra broke the news in on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
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