Even Germany’s Box Art Is Censored Now

The Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle, or USK, are Germany’s classification board. And as you may already be aware, they’re a conservative bunch, banning games that even Australia let slide. But this, this is new. Witness Germany’s box art for Valve’s upcoming zombie co-op shooter, Left 4 Dead. Notice anything, uh, different?

That’s right. While every other region’s box art shows a left hand with the thumb bitten off – zombies feast on the flesh of the living, you see, it’s a joke – on the German version, the thumb’s simply tucked in behind the hand there. No gore. How humourless.