The link between viruses, viral news stories and business is inevitably an uncomfortable one. It gets darker still when the business is a game in which players spread a virtual disease.
As a newly identified virus originating in central China spread on Tuesday, a mobile game called Plague Inc. became the top paid app in the country’s version of Apple’s App Store. The game, made by British studio Ndemic Creations in 2012, also experienced an increase in downloads and player numbers during the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
The coronavirus covers people’s mouths with a face mask in China while their mouths are shut by “the power of darkness.” Many blog and YouTube sites criticizing Crown Prince Akishino-no-miya are shut down in Japan. Freedom of speech are being undermined in the democratic nation.
Researchers fart?
China is the evil empire and it needs to be tamed.
Fake news
And in second place is Re-education Camp Inc............
I play Plague inc
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Can't be good for the social credit score.