Just over a week ago we reported on a game called Rendition: Guantanamo, one that was to be set in a fictional Gitmo of the future. Developer T-Enterprise announced that they had signed a contract with former detainee Mozzam Begg to add his personal expertise to the project, and T-Enterprise exec Zarrar Chishti claimed the game was being developed in order to ensure that "Guantanamo not be forgotten". Although I'm pretty sure that the terrorist internment camp didn't need a next-gen release to cement its place in history, it looks like we won't even be getting that.

In the wake of a small avalanche of controversy, T-Enterprise has decided to drop its plans to finish Rendition: Guantanamo. A statement issued by Christi yesterday blamed all of us, and not the fact that he decided to make a game out of Guantanamo Bay:

"Unfortunately, much of the speculation regarding the game itself made by various publications and websites has been inaccurate and ill informed... [The game] was never designed to be “propaganda” or “a recruiting tool for terrorism”. Neither was it designed to glamorise terrorism as has been reported.

First and foremost, the main character was NOT Moazzam Begg... T-Enterprise is against all forms of terrorism... Furthermore, Guantanamo was to be a mercenary run institution and so there would have been NO American military personnel killed within the game...

I would now like to refute all suggestions that the game was in any way linked to Al Qaeda. T-Enterprise has never had and would never have a link to Al Qaeda in any way, shape or form... The game was simply designed to be an action video game that adults could enjoy.

However, as a direct result of the extreme reaction that the game and its popular misconceptions have provoked, T-Enterprise has decided to pull out of the project and will not be completing Rendition: Guantanamo."

With one conservative blogger referring to the game as "Al Qaeda's Xbox Fantasy Game", and Rush Limbaugh going as far as to blame Bill and Melinda Gates personally for the project, it was really just a matter of time before Rendition: Guantanamo ended up on the scrap heap right alongside Six Days in Fallujah. It's just too soon.

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