Games We Love but Wish We Could Love Playing
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It was announced a while ago that Dead Space was banned from China, Japan and Germany. Then rumors started flying everywhere that something was fishy about this ban. EA has responded and they have confirmed that this is true, the game was banned in all three of those countries. Which begs the question, how bad can this game be to get banned from Japan?
We reported earlier that EA's survival horror game Dead Space has been banned in China, Germany and Japan. Apparently, there was some contention by GamePolitics as to whether the title was actually banned, noting that EA had not responded to the news. Well, they just did. EA, in an e-mail to X3F last week, stated that "Dead Space was banned from being sold in Japan, Germany, and China!"
Furthermore, one of the developer's alleged Twitter confirms this as well. "I just confirmed with upper management that Dead Space is banned in China, Germany and Japan. Not a rumor folks ... it's true." To us, whether it was banned or not in those countries doesn't matter much -- we are pretty psyched for this game anyway. What about you?
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- via neoseeker.com





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Seeing as 3 other countries banned it, you can almost guarantee it won't see the light of day in Aus unless it is edited.
But still it doesn't mean it won't be banned after actually being released.Manhunt wasn't banned here till like 6 months after release.
Are there some games that haven't been ported there because of violence issues?
When it comes down to censorship in Japan a lot of it boils down to individual companies deciding on what to censor, not the government.
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