The wildly popular simulation game 'Plague Inc' has been pulled from the iPhone's Chinese app store amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis in China (AAPL)

• A long-running, wildly popular game that simulates a worldwide pandemic was just pulled from Apple's iPhone app store in China.
• The game's use spiked in China after the coronavirus outbreak, and it reached the top spot on Apple's App Store charts as a result.
• The game's maker says it doesn't know why the game was pulled. "It's not clear to us if this removal is linked to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that China is facing," a statement from Ndemic Creations says.
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A wildly popular game that intends to simulate a worldwide epidemic recently had a cosmic surge in popularity — "Plague Inc.," as it's known, even became the most popular game on Apple's iPhone app store around the world.

Recently, the game topped Apple's app store chart in China. That's particularly notable because of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, which originated in and has mostly affected China, where more than 78,000 people have been sickened.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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