SAN FRANCISCO - JAPANESE videogame maker Konami confirmed on Tuesday that it spiked plans to publish a videogame based on a fierce battle between US Marines and insurgents in the Iraq city of Fallujah.

'Six Days in Fallujah' was made by Atomic Games studio and crafted with input from dozens of Marines in order to recreate the 2004 battle from the perspective of US forces on the ground.

'Konami is no longer publishing 'Six Days in Fallujah',' a spokeswoman for the company said in response to an AFP inquiry.

'Anything beyond that, I cannot comment.'

The first-person shooter game was billed as a 'survival horror' title that follows a squad of US Marines fighting to wrest Fallujah from entrenched insurgents during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Konami had planned to release the videogame next year, but the title was condemned by some military veterans and families of people whose lives were lost during the fighting. -- AFP