White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the Tetris Company complains

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A video crippled posted to the Trump administration’s website — 1 that intimately resembled Tetris — has been taken down aft the Tetris Company complained.

The White House precocious took the antithetic measurement of posting a fig of arcade-style video games to its website. One of the much arguable was a crippled called “Build the Wall,” which reportedly mirrored Tetris’ gameplay, tasking players with stacking blocks of assorted shapes and sizes. Widely criticized arsenic racist, the stated extremity of the crippled was to physique a partition successful bid to support retired a “zombie borderline siege.”

Not agelong aft Build the Wall’s beingness became public, the Tetris Company — which owns the rights to the archetypal Tetris crippled — spoke retired astir it, clarifying that it had nary relation successful its creation. “The Tetris Company was not progressive successful the instauration of ‘Build the Wall’,” it said in an Instagram post, adding: “We instrumentality copyright infringement precise seriously.”

The leafage for Build the Wall present returns a “404” error, meaning the leafage nary longer exists. Kotaku first spotted that the crippled was nary longer disposable connected the White House’s website. TechCrunch has reached retired to the Trump medication for comment.

Still disposable connected the government’s website is simply a crippled called Rio Run, wherever players power a achromatic antheral quality whose extremity is to deport arsenic galore migrant characters arsenic possible.

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