{"id":10150,"date":"2017-10-27T13:45:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T21:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/news-3923\/"},"modified":"2017-10-27T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T21:45:14","slug":"news-3923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/news-3923\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Lobbyists: Thunderbird Strike Video Game ‘Promotes Ecoterrorism’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit to Author: Jacob Dub\u00e9| Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:47:15 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guess what: Some old people came out and claimed a video game promoted violence again. On Thursday, Michigan state Senator David Osmek said Thunderbird Strike<\/a><\/i>\u2014a video game where players control an Indigenous thunderbird and destroy pipelines while restoring the natural environment\u2014is “an eco-terrorist version of Angry Birds<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The game\u2014which won the award for best digital media at the ImagineNATIVE<\/a> festival in Toronto last weekend\u2014was created by Elizabeth LaPens\u00e9e<\/a>, an Anishinaabe, M\u00e9tis, and Irish games developer, and assistant professor of media and information at Michigan State University. She told Motherboard in an interview earlier this month<\/a> that the game is intended to advocate for the removal of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac in the Great Lakes. She declined to comment for this story for legal reasons.<\/p>\n

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