Apple rejects game about Palestine because political messages disqualify games from consideration

What makes this an extra-special masterpiece of consistency is that This War of Mine has an iOS port, presumably by virtue of being set in a lightly fictionalized version of a war with minimal current foreign policy relevance; but is a pretty clear demonstration that ‘harrowing survival sims that suggest that war isn’t so hot for civilians’ are in fact games even for Apple’s purposes. Except when they aren’t.

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