Trump White House Pulls Down Tetris-Like Game, in Which You Had to Stop a ‘Zombie Siege’ at Mexican Border, After Company’s Copyright Threat

By Todd Spangler

Todd Spangler

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The White House has removed the “Build the Wall” game — a Tetris knockoff in which players were tasked with fortifying the southern U.S. border to keep out illegal immigrants — after the company that owns the rights to the popular title issued a statement saying that “we take copyright infringement very seriously.”

Trump’s White House on Sept. 3 launched arcade.gov, featuring a collection of five MAGA-themed games. That included “Build the Wall” (with the subtitle “ZOMBIE BORDER SIEGE”). The foreign invaders from the Mexican side of the border bounced off the wall a player built and disintegrated, until the blocks were stacked above the upper bound and the game ended with the message “BORDER BREACHED.”

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