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Austin Wood

Splitgate 2 CEO apologizes again, says "I'm not an idiot" and expected "some" controversy, but wasn't being political with his hat at Summer Game Fest: "We needed something to grab attention"

Splitgate 2 trailer character in a cowboy hat.

Continuing his Summer Game Fest 2025 cleanup, CEO Ian Proulx of Splitgate 2 developer 1047 Games released a new video explaining and apologizing for the "division" stirred by his comments during the summer event's big showcase, which saw him criticize the state of the FPS genre while wearing a "Make FPS Great Again" that has proven controversial, to say the least.

This video follows additional comments from Proulx stressing that the hat was "not a political statement," and reiterating that "the state of multiplayer FPS games is tragically stale."

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