‘Build the Wall’ game removed from White House website following warning from Tetris

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The White House has removed from its website an arcade-style “Build the Wall” game closely styled like Tetris, which comes after the gaming company warned of copyright infringement.

The White House last week launched a series of games on its website to tout the administration’s priorities. But two games focused on immigration — “Build the Wall” and “Rio Run” — quickly sparked backlash , including from the Tetris brand, which said that it believes “in the power of connection, and bringing people together, not dividing them.”

The “Build the Wall” game — which first appeared on the site last Thursday — asked users to stack bricks and “hold the line” against a “zombie border siege.” Soon after its debut, Tetris posted on Instagram that it was not involved in the game’s creation and added, “We take copyright infringement very seriously.”

The game was gone from the White House website as of Wednesday. But some clips of the game are still featured in videos that the White House posted on social media. The White House did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.

“Tetris has no comment,” a representative of Miller PR, which represents Tetris, told CNN on Wednesday.

Another immigration-themed game, “Rio Run,” still appears on the White House website. The game, which is similar to Snake, has users “patrol the line” along the Rio Grande and “pick up every crosser in the lot” to earn a high score of deportations.

The White House is also still featuring three other arcade-style games — one that prompts users to fill their “kids’ Trump accounts”; one that prompts users to fly a bald eagle down the National Mall; and another where users can sort a school lunch to “Make America Healthy Again.”

The launch of the arcade games was the White House’s latest aggressive online effort to troll Democrats, which has at times surfaced racist and offensive images. Trump and the White House have drawn sharp criticism , for example, for their use of social media and official government platforms — including by using racist and offensive images, like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero and the Obamas depicted as apes in a jungle.

A White House official last week cast the arcade games as “an effort to further contrast between a culture of fun and winning and the dark socialist vision Democrats have for America.”

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白宫已从其网站上删除了一款街机风格的“建墙”游戏，该游戏与俄罗斯方块非常相似。此前，游戏公司曾警告称该游戏侵犯了版权。

上周，白宫在其网站上推出了一系列游戏，旨在宣传政府的优先事项。但其中两款以移民为主题的游戏——“建墙”和“里约奔跑”——迅速引发了强烈反弹，包括来自俄罗斯方块品牌的批评。俄罗斯方块品牌表示，他们相信“连接的力量，相信团结人民，而不是分裂人民”。

这款名为“筑墙”的游戏于上周四首次出现在该网站上，游戏要求用户堆叠砖块，抵御“僵尸边境围攻”。游戏上线后不久，俄罗斯方块官方Instagram账号发布声明称，他们并未参与该游戏的制作，并补充道：“我们非常重视版权侵权问题。”

截至周三，这场比赛已从白宫网站上删除。但白宫在社交媒体上发布的视频中仍然包含一些比赛片段。白宫尚未回复CNN的置评请求。

“Tetris公司对此不予置评，”Tetris的公关公司Miller PR的一位代表周三告诉CNN。

另一款以移民为主题的游戏“里约快跑”（Rio Run）仍然出现在白宫网站上。这款游戏类似于贪吃蛇，玩家需要沿着格兰德河“巡逻”，并“抓捕所有越境者”，以获得最高的遣返分数。

白宫目前还推出了另外三款街机风格的游戏——一款鼓励用户为他们的“孩子特朗普账户”充值；一款鼓励用户让一只秃鹰飞过国家广场；还有一款让用户可以整理学校午餐，以“让美国再次健康”。

白宫推出街机游戏是其最新一次在网上恶意攻击民主党人的举措，此前白宫曾多次发布种族主义和冒犯性图片。例如，特朗普和白宫因使用社交媒体和官方政府平台而饱受诟病，其中包括使用种族主义和冒犯性图片，例如众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯戴着墨西哥帽的照片，以及奥巴马夫妇被描绘成丛林中的猿猴。

上周，一位白宫官员将这些街机游戏描述为“进一步对比娱乐和胜利文化与民主党人对美国的黑暗社会主义愿景的努力”。