Game that rewards players for killing Indigenous Australians pulled from app stores
by Elle Hunt from Technology | The Guardian on (#10VHS)
Survival Island 3 - Australia Story 3D removed from Apple and Google app stores after public outcry over gameplay showing an Aboriginal man being beaten to death with a stone axe
A mobile game that purportedly rewarded players for bludgeoning Indigenous Australians to death has been removed from both Apple and Google app stores following public outcry.
Survival Island 3 - Australia Story 3D tasked players with surviving in the outback. A cached snapshot of the game taken by Google as it appeared in Apple's iTunes store on 12 January shows its description: "Your goal is to survive."
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