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Outcry after Call of Duty maker uses real footage of deadly Seoul crowd crush in new video game

The clips, which are seconds-long, appear in the opening moments of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, and are used to represent a scenario of civilian casualties during a fictional North Korean invasion.

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Modern Warfare 4 uses video from the Itaewon crush to show the aftermath of an imagined North Korean attack.

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