Destiny 2 – the gauntlets have now been removed from the game (pic: Waypoint)

Bungie has been forced to remove optional gear which seems to feature the ‘Kekistan’ logo, saying the similarity is not intentional.

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Developer Bungie has moved quickly to remove controversial armour from Destiny 2, which players have pointed out seems to use the logo of a white supremacist group.

A reader contacted website Waypoint, to point out just how similar the logo on the Road Complex AA1 gauntlets is to details on the Kekistan flag (don’t worry that’s only a Wikipedia link).

Since the gauntlets have a ‘legendary’ level of rarity they won’t be seen by many people, but the similarity, even including the colour green, seems too much to be a coincidence.


2/2 Our deepest apologies. This does NOT represent our values, and we are working quickly to correct this. We renounce hate in all forms. — Bungie (@Bungie) September 12, 2017

Bungie responded by removing the gauntlets, but insisted that the similarity to the logo was ‘not intentional’.



CEO Pete Parsons added in a personal tweet that, ‘Our company values place the highest emphasis on inclusion of all people and respect for all who work with us or play our games.’

The flag is modelled after the German military flag used in Nazi Germany, and was used by alt-right groups at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last month.

What presumably happened is that an artist at Bungie with far right sympathies created the logo, but no-one else at Bungie knew what it was. And so the problem wasn’t realised until the game was made available to the public.

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