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FPS Rantings

September 9th, 2008

Crap-Detector: EA announces Dead Space is banned in several countries

There’s been a lot of noise recently surrounding Dead Space, that survival-horror shooter by EA, and it has something to do with the game being allegedly banned in several countries at once. According to EA community manager Ben Swanson, “Dead Space will be banned in Germany, China, and Japan.”
Tags: ban, dead_space, ea, gamepolitics, germany, video_games, […]

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September 27th, 2007

Jericho is practically banned in Germany

At least, that’s what GamePolitics said. It seems that the upcoming horror shooter from horror guru Clive Barker is refused classification by governing body USK (or Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle – if you don’t speak German, good luck pronouncing it). The group is Germany’s equivalent to the ESRB.

According to GP’s source, Sony and Microsoft won’t market […]

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