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Racist video game pulled from app stores

Racist video game pulled from app stores

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.”

“Beware of angry animals, especially if you don’t have any weapon. At nights, there is really dangerous, (sic) try to hide somewhere … Hunt animals or grow plants – you have to eat something.”

“You also have to fight with aboriginals [sic] – you invaded their home!”

A screenshot used to promote the game in the Apple iTunes store showed an in-game alert of “Beware of Aborigines!”

Released on 14 December and priced at $4.49 AU, it was listed as appropriate for players of 12 years old and up, for “infrequent/mild” realistic violence, cartoon or fantasy violence, and “horror/fear themes”.

Last modified on Tuesday, 19 January 2016 08:29