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Iranian group accuses ‘Angry Birds Space’ of being latest weapon in cyber war: The Verge

Too good, I just couldn’t resist.

According to The Verge’s Brian Crecente, the Iran Computer & Video Games Foundation (such a thing exists?) sent a letter to the developer of the popular Angry Birds game.  What, praytell, did that letter contain?  An accusation that the ninth level contained a planet that looked like Iran.  This will clearly “inspire anti-Iran sentiments to players and that the game . . . is part of the United States cyber war against [Iran].”

 

Stuxnet, Flame, Duqu, and . . . Angry Birds.

Via Wikimedia.

I just had to find out what sort of games the Iran Computer & Video Games Foundation puts out, and I wasn’t disappointed.  Number one search result was a Guardian article about an Iranian video game featuring the Salman Rushdie fatwa.  Awesome, can’t wait, so pumped to try it out!

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