Last week, The White House, the seat of power in a country that really has better things to be doing, rolled out a virtual arcade containing five very bad videogames, including one based on the famed block-stacking game Tetris. Unlike what we've seen in past instances where videogame properties were used without permission in White House propaganda, The Tetris Company quickly called it out, warning, "We take copyright infringement very seriously."
And now, that game—called Build the Wall—is gone.
Most of the games in the White House Arcade promote various elements of US president Donald Trump's agenda: Rio Run promotes racism and xenophobia, Supply Line focuses on the virtues of science denial, and Trump Savings Tycoon extols the upsides of corruption. Build the Wall was all about stoking fears of immigration: Stacked blocks represented a wall keeping people—very specifically Mexicans, described by the game as "the coming horde"—from entering the US.
It was a very bad game that didn't seem to wo...
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