Indie game All Will Rise returns Microsoft funding amid boycott

All Will Rise is a self-described “narrative courtroom deck-builder” in which players “take a corrupt billionaire to court for a river’s murder,” and it ppears in the home stretch of a successful crowdfunding effort on Kickstarter. Speculative Agency has broken its contract with Microsoft and will return the funding the Xbox maker provided as part of a developer acceleration programme deal.

The studio said the growing movement "has the potential to pressure Microsoft to cease its complicity with Israeli genocide." Narrative director Meghna Jayanth told Eurogamer that Microsoft has agreed to let the studio break its contract, though some details are still being ironed out.

"The people we corresponded with at Microsoft have been very understanding of our decision," Jayanth said.

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