Regulators remove virus game 'Plague Inc' from China app stores

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Regulators remove virus game 'Plague Inc' from China app stores
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Developers of strategy-based game tell players situation is out of their control. FMTNews Game China

The game allows players to create and evolve a pathogen to destroy the world.

The game, which allows users to create and evolve a pathogen to destroy the world, soared to the top of the charts of Apple’s China app store in January, as players turned to disaster-themed content as a coping mechanism. “We’ve just been informed that Plague Inc ‘includes content that is illegal in China as determined by the Cyberspace Administration of China’ and has been removed from the China App Store. This situation is completely out of our control,” Ndemic said in a statement on its website.

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