"We bow our heads in deep sympathy and apology to the bereaved families and victims."

Image credit: Infinity Ward

Activision has apologised to the bereaved families of the Itaewon crowd crush victims and confirmed it will remove real footage of the tragedy from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4.

In a new statement reported by Inven Global , Activision said the footage "will be completely removed" via a game update scheduled to roll out on 12th November.

The statement was issued in Korean, and the quotes come via Inven Global's AI-assisted, editor-reviewed translation.

As we reported earlier this week , the game's opening cinematic uses short news clips to depict fictional civilian casualties during a North Korean invasion of South Korea. Those clips have since been found to include archive footage from the 2022 Itaewon disaster, in which around 160 people died.…