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Victura at the JFK Presidential Library

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Six Days in Fallujah - Early Access coming to Steam on June 22, 2023

Full Version will come out PC & Console in 2024 😱👀🪖

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Six Days in Fallujah is coming to Steam Early Access on June 22nd

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JFK and Jackie sailing aboard the Victura in Nantucket Sound, off the shores of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts with some of the Kennedy nieces, nephews, and relatives. Circa, August 1959. (Photographed by Mark Shaw 📸)

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"Shammas says these persistently negative depictions of Arab countries also affect the people who live there. “If that’s the framework you’re given…that your country can only look shitty and your people are only poor and they’re only ever screaming, fighting, or dying, then that’s how you see yourself. Then you no longer want to be that—and that pushes you into whiteness.”"

“We jokingly call it ‘Arabistan,’” game developer and consultant Rami Ismail said via video call. “A game designer once came up with that term…I think a lot of us use [it]. Some people say it’s a nice thing, but I don’t really see it that way. It just means that we’re literally interchangeable, our cultures are interchangeable.”

“It’s perpetuating the idea that there is a singular, Middle Eastern country,” Shammas said during our chat. ”It actually ties in very strongly [to current events] because we’re seeing people say, ‘Oh, well, just take the Palestinians into Egypt, take the Palestinians into Jordan.’ These are different people with different Arabic languages…Call of Duty reflects the fact that we treat these cultures as totally swappable and why people don’t care about the displacement of Palestinian indigenous people specifically.”

“It helps with the subtle colonialist narrative that the space is empty, barren, and owned by babbling savages that you can now enter and make something of.”

"Victura maintained that Six Days in Fallujah should paint an accurate picture of what happened during that battle, but Tamte said he wanted American soldiers to be portrayed heroically. And therein lies the problem: by not engaging with the real-world context, you present it in an ahistorical vacuum, where players can once again kill virtual Arabs without ever questioning why they’re doing so."

"Hussain expressed a similar sentiment: “Think about it: when was the last time you were shown a Middle Eastern setting as thriving? Did you ever learn, either through school or any media you consume, about the Middle Eastern world’s contribution to mathematics, medicine, astronomy, language, or music? I bet you know the standard weapons loadout for a Middle Eastern terrorist, though.”"

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Tactical FPS “Six Days in Fallujah” Now Available via Steam Early Access

Tactical FPS “Six Days in Fallujah” Now Available via Steam Early Access | #gaming #Steam #PCGames #PCgaming #military

شلون؟ On Thursday, publisher Victura launched first-person tactical shooter Six Days in Fallujah via Steam Early Access. The full release is expected sometime in 2024, with console ports for PS5 and SeXbox coming at a later date. Developed by Highwire Games, Six Days in Fallujah recreates the Second Battle of Fallujah which took place in the Iraqi Province of Al Anbar in 2005. At this time, the…

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Six Days in Fallujah release date confirmed

With Victura and Highware Games' "first-person tactical shooter," set in and around the named Iraqi city, confirmed for debut on Steam Early Access, the Six Days in Fallujah release date is approaching sooner rather than later. The First-Person Shooter (FPS) game, which was created with the assistance of actual Marines and soldiers who "served in the Second Battle of Fallujah," "requires players to overcome real-world scenarios with their fire team by using real-life military tactics," and it will be released with multiplayer co-op this summer. It follows the nearly 18-year development of Six Days in Fallujah. “In Early Access, Six Days in Fallujah will focus initially on the experiences of US Marine fireteams on the first day of the battle,” Highwire Games says. “As Early Access develops, players can also choose to play cooperatively as special operations or Iraqi soldiers fighting alongside coalition forces, and players will begin to encounter civilians as the battle progresses.” From its Early Access launch, Six Days in Fallujah will feature four multiplayer co-op missions, set in procedurally generated maps which alter each time they are played. The FPS also features “tactical indoor and outdoor sandbox” gameplay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNtDjwTXIpQ The Six Days in Fallujah release date is June 22, and the game will be available for $39.99 (£32) on Steam. The full release is scheduled to follow some time in 2024. The game began development in 2004, but was dropped by its original publisher, Konami. Six Days in Fallujah has faced controversy owing to its depiction of real-life military action and gameplay that involves interactions between soldiers and Iraqi civilians. PCGamesN spoke with Victura CEO Peter Tamte, who says the developer “could have done a better job” with presenting both sides of the Iraq War in Six Days in Fallujah’s promotional material. Take a look at some of the other upcoming games set to arrive in 2023. You may also want to try some of the best new games that are already available on PC. Read the full article

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Six Days in Fallujah, the previously cancelled first-person tactical military shooter based on true stories from the Second Battle for Fallujah in 2004, has been resurrected by publisher Victura and developer Highwire Games for release on consoles and PC via Steam in 2021, the companies announced. Specific consoles were not announced.

Originally announced by Atomic Games in 2009, Six Days in Fallujah returns with a new publisher, new developer, and new game from many of the core leadership team behind the Halo and Destiny games.

“Sometimes the only way to understand what’s true is to experience reality for yourself,” said former Marine Sergeant Eddie Garcia, who was wounded during the Battle for Fallujah and proposed the original idea for Six Days in Fallujah in 2005. “War is filled with uncertainty and tough choices that can’t be understood by watching someone on a TV or movie screen make these choices for you. Video games can help all of us understand real-world events in ways other media can’t.”

Victura CEO added, “It’s hard to understand what combat is actually like through fake people doing fake things in fake places. This generation showed sacrifice and courage in Iraq as remarkable as any in history. And now they’re offering the rest of us a new way to understand one of the most important events of our century. It’s time to challenge outdated stereotypes about what video games can be.”

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The Second Battle for Fallujah began in 2004 after Al Qaeda seized control of one of Iraq’s major cities. The battle proved to be the toughest military conflict for Western forces since 1968.

Atomic Games announced Six Days in Fallujah in 2009, but saw the title abandoned by its original publisher following controversy about the ability of video games to cover challenging real-world events. Victura is a publishing and production company founded in 2016 by former Atomic Games CEO Peter Tamte with the goal of bringing a new Six Days in Fallujah to players, along with other games based on true stories.

Working in partnership with frontline Marines and Soldiers who fought in the Battle for Fallujah, Victura and Highwire have spent more than three years building unique technologies and game mechanics that bring players closer to the uncertainty and tactics of modern combat than other video games have explored.

Over 100 Marines, Soldiers, and Iraqi civilians who were present during the Second Battle for Fallujah have shared their personal stories, photographs, and video recordings with the development team. The game gives these stories voice through gameplay and first-person accounts captured in original documentary interview footage. Six Days in Fallujah aims to be the most authentic military shooter to date and to tell these military and civilian stories with the integrity they deserve.

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1979, Sailing on the ‘Victura’.

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Un grupo de apoyo a musulmanes pide a Valve, Microsoft y Sony prohibir Six Days in Fallujah

Tras revelarse el lanzamiento de Six Days in Fallujah, una organización de defensa de los derechos civiles de los ciudadanos musulmanes en Estados Unidos, conocido bajo el nombre de Consejo de Relaciones Estadounidenses-Islámicas (CAIR), ha publicado recientemente un comunicado el que le pide a las principales tiendas de distribución de videojuegos de Valve, Microsoft y […]

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Six Days in Fallujah publisher now says the game is ‘inseparable from politics’

Six Days in Fallujah publisher now says the game is ‘inseparable from politics’

Image: Victura Nearly a month after distancing itself from political statements, the publisher of the controversial military shooter Six Days in Fallujah has backtracked and now says the events in the game are “inseparable from politics.” The game, which takes place during the Iraq War’s Second Battle of Fallujah, has come under scrutiny for seemingly portraying a US-centric focus on a campaign…

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Latest “Six Days in Fallujah” Trailer Showcases Procedurally Generating Environments

Latest “Six Days in Fallujah” Trailer Showcases Procedurally Generating Environments | #gaming #videogames #history #military #SixDaysGame

Game publisher Victura Games recently released a new trailer for Six Days in Fallujah, the realistic first-person tactical shooter based on the US Military’s experiences during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The latest trailer showcases Six Days in Fallujah’s procedural generating environments, which were designed to emulate the uncertainty of clearing houses and other buildings. You can check out…

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A young JFK (right) on the family sailboat Victura with brother Robert (left) in July 1934.