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iPhone App Offers School Shooter Game

Critics wonder how, why Apple approved

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 20, 2009 11:45 AM CDT

(Newser) – A new iPhone game that glorifies school shootings somehow got through the Apple screeners, PC World reports. “Zombie School,” from the just-as-politically-incorrect company Retarded Arts, lets players pick off “zombie” cheerleaders, principals, and quarterbacks from atop a “zombie shooting tower.”... Read full story »

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