A game that encouraged players to kill Indigenous Australians was removed from the App Store
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The Guardian reports that Survival Island 3 - Australia Story 3D has been pulled from app stores after people discovered the content inside the game.
The game tasked the player with surviving in ancient Australia, and screenshots used to promote the app in the App Store told the player to "beware of Aborigines!"
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Several people who had bought and played the game uploaded videos to YouTube showing them killing Indigenous Australians. The Guardian reports that many of those videos have since been deleted.
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Business Insider contacted Apple and Google about the app's removal and will update this post if we hear back.
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