“Legal pressure from Atari has caused some titles to be removed by Apple from the App Store, including ‘Vector Tanks’ by Black Powder Media, gamesindustry.biz reported on Tuesday,” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider.
“The developer asserts that Atari has a ‘special relationship’ with Apple, which has led to applications being pulled without a chance for rebuttal or further evaluation,” Marsal reports. “Black Power Media’s ‘Vector Tanks’ is a wireframe 3D game that resembles Atari’s ‘Battlezone.'”
Marsal reports, “The developer even claims they previously attempted to contact Atari to license their intellectual property for ‘Vector Tanks,’ but they could not be reached. He said the company seems ‘to have fallen off the planet.'”
Read more in the full article, including Black Powder Media’s plans for the third installment of the tank game, here.