Xbox has lost two indie game darlings from its store. On Bluesky, Maddy Thorson of MaddyMakesGames confirmed that both Celeste and TowerFall had been pulled from the Xbox store in support of the BDS movement.

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This is the second high-profile indie developer this month to make a statement about taking its games off Xbox (or not releasing them there in the first place) after House House shared that in support of BDS, Big Walk would not be made available on the platform . There is a growing tide of anti-Xbox sentiment over parent company Microsoft’s technical contributions to the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. No Games For Genocide is a collective of developers and other gaming professionals urging a boycott of Xbox games and services as a part of the larger BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) movement targeting companies including Disney, HP, Reebok, and more .…