Archive for the tag "banned"
Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Posted in Belgium, Retail, Trade | No Comments »
The Belgian Entertainment Association has clarified reports that game rentals are to be banned in Belgium next month, saying that the issue isn't with retailers offering games to rent, rather ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Belgium, Retail, Trade | 9 Comments »
According to this De Standaard piece, games rentals will be banned in Belgium as of December 1.
Gamemania - the largest specialist game retailer in Belgium - says in the piece ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Action, Australia, Horror, Hot, Legalities, Violence in games | 6 Comments »
Pathetic. According to this XboxOz360Gamer story, the Australian OFLC has refused to classify Silent Hill: Homecoming, effectively barring the game from sale in the country.
Apparently Australian people can't cope with ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008 Posted in Action, EA, Germany, Horror, Hot, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | 8 Comments »
Eurogamer.de's scotched a report that said Dead Space had already been banned in Germany. Basically, it hasn't.
The site's spoken to EA Germany, and the game is still with the USK, ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008 Posted in Action, China, EA, Germany, Horror, Hot, Japan, PC, PS3, Violence in games, Xbox 360 | 5 Comments »
According to this Destructoid piece, Dead Space community manager Andrew Green has revealed that the EA action horror has been banned in Germany, Japan and China.
There's no detail there other ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Action, Australia, D3Publisher Europe, PS3, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
Whoops. Australia's trigger happy censor board - the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) - has refused to grant a rating to D3's Dark Sector.
The sci-fi action game contains, ...
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