“A video game that appears to encourage players to kill Indigenous Australians has been removed from Google Play and iTunes after an online petition attracted more than 60,000 signatures condemning the game.
“The petition was started by Gadigal woman Georgia Mantle who raised concerns that it required players to survive in the Australian outback and rewarded them with weapons and food for killing Aboriginal people.
“”What this is doing is making entertainment out of the murder of people based on their race,” Ms Mantle told the ABC.
“”Why would you allow an app that is so blatantly racist and promotes racist violence to be hosted on your sites?”
“Reviews of the game, Survival Island 3 – Australia Story 3D, in the Google Play store blasted the game as “glorifying genocide” and “horrific and disgustingly racist”.”
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