A morally questionable game in which players train canines in order to put them through illegal dog fights has been pulled from the Android Market.
The game was yanked after outrage from gamers around the world, as well as actress Alicia Silverstone and former dogfighter Michael Vick. I find Vick's outrage funny, since he's already had his fun with the dog torture. Let others have a turn! At least it's pretend this time.
By all accounts, the game was little more than a crap Mafia clone, so nothing of value was lost. I'd have loved to have seen a Pokemon-style parody, though. Something with a satirical message underlying the brutal tastelessness. It might have still been pulled, but I'd have been more keen to champion its cause.
Censorship sucks, but I'm not sure how they ever thought this game would stick once the cause-driven celebrities found it. At least now we know that dog fighting games aren't cool!
Dogfighting Game Disappears from Android Market Following Complaints [All Things Digital]
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10:00 AM on 04.27.2011 | 
I'm the same way though - I always feel so much worse when an animal dies in a movie or whatever, while when a person dies I could care less.
obvious overcompensation is obvious
also pokemon is basically the same apart from the blood all over the fighting pokemon's face.
not like i'd buy this crap game anyway. dogs can't bubble beam.
Replace Pikachu and Meowth with a German Sheperd and a Rottweiler and you've got a dogfighting sim.
Now I can get back to some Mortal Kombat so I can rip my friends bspine out and beat him with it in peace.
People.
Can't live with them, can't firebomb them.
But I suppose we do have to pick our battle.
The dogs (or dog derivatives) have to clearly be bloodying each other up for their own benefit or just for fun rather than being coaxed or baited into mauling one another for cash and ego boosting.
You certainly wouldn't want your distribution service to seem like it supports this stuff, would you?
But anyway, while I agree that censorship is wrong, there are some things that are in such bad taste that they offer absolutely no redeeming social value. Leaving a game like this available to people ONLY because "censorship is wrong" is irresponsible imho.
I dunno, I feel it was doomed from the start. I guess if the game was shitty, then it served to be controversial, rather than good. Kind of like that DaVinci Code book. If you haven't read it, just know that the writing isn't all that great, and all of Dan Brown's books follow a basic formula. Important paragraphs end with stupid, random statements that throw the whole thing off.
Well that got off topic. Anyways, good riddance to a game only meant to pimp itself out for attention. I believe they got what they wanted, in the end.
It is a neat idea though and it would be funny if it was a Pokemon parody, but there was no way in hell that the game would ever going to be accepted so the turn out is predictable.
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