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Celeste and TowerFall have been removed from the Xbox store in a move to "support the BDS boycott" against Microsoft

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Celeste and TowerFall have been removed from the Xbox store in a move to "support the BDS boycott" against Microsoft

This follows fellow indie dev House House announcing Big Walk will not be coming to Xbox

It's a good day to love Celeste! Earlier today it was discovered that Celeste had been removed from the Xbox Store while it remained on the PlayStation and Nintendo digital storefronts. Now, as shared by the game's co-creator Maddy Thorson, it's been confirmed that both Celeste and TowerFall were removed from store expressly in support of the BDS called boycott against Xbox over Microsoft providing support to the Israeli military as it enacts its genocide of the Palestinian people.

A larger statement hasn't been made by other Celeste developers or Thorson's current studio EXOK Games, but the larger more important point is that the games are no longer available for purchase on the Xbox Store. Earlier this month, House House, developer of one of the biggest indies of the year Big Walk, also shared their own support for the BDS movement and Microsoft boycott announcement by announcing their (quite excellent) social puzzle game will not be launching on Xbox for the foreseeable future. Developer Origame Digital also made an incredibly potent statement denouncing the genocide in their latest game, Penguin's Colony.

For those who’re asking, yes we delisted Celeste and TowerFall on XBox. We did this to support the BDS boycott

For those not in the know, BDS called for the boycott of Microsoft and Xbox games and hardware last year over the tech company providing AI software to the Israeli military which was used specifically to target Palestinian civilians; Microsoft have even confirmed that they were providing this software .


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