In Wolfenstein 3D, players storm a Nazi castle before killing a robot Hitler. Games featuring the Nazi flag remain available on the App Store and unlike the removed civil war games, many do not claim historical accuracy. “We’re in no way sympathetic to the use of the flag in an offensive way, we used it purely because historically that was the flag that was used at the time,” the developer of Civil War: 1862 told TouchArcade. The company appears to be following the lead of retail establishments such as WalMart, which has recently announced that it will no longer sell the Confederate flag in the wake of the Charleston shooting.īut the majority of the affected games are relatively staid turn-based strategy games, using the Confederate flag in the appropriate historical context to represent the forces of the Confederate army. Apple cited its app store review guidelines in a letter to affected developers, stating: “Apps containing references or commentary about a religious, cultural or ethnic group that are defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited or likely to expose the targeted group to harm or violence will be rejected.”
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