According to the news in SoL, the reason for the reactions was that the ‘Stalingrad map’ in the ‘Zombie’ mode of the game had pages from the Qur’an scattered on a floor, some of which were stained with blood.
Game developer Activision-Blizzard apologized to “Muslim gamers” for including pages from the Qur’an in its latest game, Call of Duty: Vanguard.
A boycott call has been made in some countries about ‘Call of Duty: Vanguard’, the newly released version of the first-person shooter series Call of Duty.
According to the news in SoL, the reason for the reactions was that the ‘Stalingrad map’ in the ‘Zombie’ mode of the game had pages from the Qur’an scattered on a floor, some of which were stained with blood.
Activision-Blizzard issued an apology on Call of Duty Middle East social media accounts yesterday, calling the content “insensitive”. The company argued that the detail in question was included by mistake. In the Arabic statement “[Oyunda] it should never have appeared as it was; We deeply apologize.”
The Koran pages on the map were later replaced with blank papers.
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