Gamers react to active shooter video game

There's growing outrage and disbelief over an active shooter video game that simulates a school shooting. Due to public outcry the company behind it has already pulled it from its website just days before its June release. 

The video game 'Active Shooter' has recently gained a lot of attention.

The scenario in the game takes players through school halls and encourages them to open fire inside classrooms and auditoriums. Users can either choose to be first responders or the shooter who stalks school halls with various weapons, including a knife and a grenade.

Friday, thousands of gamers from across the U.S. came out for Dreamhack Austin - a gaming lifestyle festival. The 24 hour weekend long event was jammed packed with gamers.  

However, attendees who heard about the "Active Shooter" video game said the game was in poor taste and bad timing. And that glorifying school shootings in video games isn't acceptable, especially with the most recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida. 

"First off it's disrespectful to the people who have to deal with that most games have scenarios that aren't realistic," said Kevin Day, avid gamer.

"You're basically kind of glorifying an incident," said Brandon Phariss. 

Some said video games and guns are often the target of ridicule after a tragedy.  

"We naturally wan to have a reason why that certain things happen it's natural to find any cause and just because there's guns and violence associated with games it's easy to blame that,"  said Phariss. 

Michael Van-Driel, with Dreamhack Austin said gamers come together to connect. 

"This is about people coming together..video games bring people together. So we don't see that any of the games here are glorifying school shootings. That has no place at an event like this," said Van-Driel. 

The online distributor stream released a statement blaming the developer calling him, "a troll, with a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation."