Well, score one for knee-jerk reactionism. Alten8 have decided not to publish their Office Massacre game after all. In their press release, Alten8 wrote:

We are genuinely shocked by some of the press reactions to the game. Whilst most see the game as we did initially, which was some harmless cartoon fun , which was very , very mild graphically compared to many commercially released mainstream games.

This game was never seen as anything other than a harmless casual game. We cannot allow Alten8 to become the centre of a witch hunt , or allow individuals to further their causes at the expense of our fledgling company.

Glad to see that gamers are so quick to cave to the conceit that some subject matter for games is verboten. The fallacy we should all be arguing against is whether or not playing games leads to moral perversion and criminality, not whether some games offend moral sensibilities. In our minds, there's a really small distinction between the moral correctness of shooting sprites pretending to be office workers and the moral correctness of shooting sprites pretending to be demons from hell. Recognizing one as unacceptable while the other is encouraged just gives anti-gaming wingnuts the ammunition they need to call out our own inconsistency.

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