iGame Radio

Apparently that’s okay for Apple for apps submitted to the App Store. a-steriods had submitted DrugLords to the App Store…the game is a location-based massively multiplayer online game about drug trafficking. Using GPS inside your iPhone (or iPod Touch), you become a drug dealer in the criminal underworld, which exists parallel to your everyday life. Basically, you learn how to buy and sell drugs on the street for money. Money gives you power: superior status, access to better drugs, high trafficking volumes, cash for bribes, independence from loan sharks, etc.

How, uh, cute.

Anyway, apparently Apple balked at the game. Well, if they are going to balk at a simple game about making farts, I suppose it’s no surprise. But no, Apple has apparently had issues with the name. All a-steroids had to do was change the game name to Underworld.

So now we’re all left wondering: Apple, just what are your parameters for applications to be placed on the App Store? You’ve got issues with a fart game, but a game teaching folks how to push drugs effectively is a-ok? Yeesh, get some context, already.