While signs strongly point to this cull of 58,000 applications being related to this major App Store clean-up that Apple have repeatedly mentioned over the past few months, there may be other reasons behind the scale and regional basis of this removal. In their report, a conflict between Apple and Tencent, the owners of Supercell and popular Chinese messaging app WeChat, and how this move may be the result of some fall-out between the two companies. However, both the scale and the nature of the titles removed - many were cited as 'inferior apps' that were not up to Apple's standards, which is a rampant issue within the Chinese App Store - suggests that this may simply be the next step in Apple's purification process of its platform. After all, the size and scale of this cull is truly unprecedented. Still, it'd be equally disheartening to see this move spread to Western App Stores, as to suddenly lose a number of truly classic games such as my beloved Dungeon Raid [] would break my heart.