“Call of Duty” Draws Fire for Using Footage of Crowd Crush

New York Times30 October 2026, 07:35 UTCSouth Korea

“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4” uses actual visuals from a crowd crush in South Korea, in which over 150 Halloween carousers died in a narrow alleyway.

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