Another developer suffers from Apple's 'curation' of games

You don’t have to guess how Apple feels about video games. The company has demonstrated once again that it thinks the interactive medium needs a babysitter.

Earlier this week, developer Slitherine updated its iOS war game Frontline: Road to Moscow, and that ended several countries around the world banning it (as first reported by PocketTactics). The game debuted on Apple’s App Store earlier this month, and this week the studio wanted to patch in some bug fixes — but this update, which didn’t change the content at all, prompted Apple to change the game’s App Store age rating to 17+ due to its depiction of “guns or gun-related activities” as well as “realistic violence.” That adults-only rating on the App Store doesn’t just put a big warning on the game, it also prevents Slitherine from selling it several markets that don’t allow content with that label. These include major markets like Brazil, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.