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Germany’s Censored L4D2 Runs Faster

2:00PM Owen Good | Australia isn’t the only nation receiving a power-cleaned version of Left 4 Dead 2. Germany, no doubt because of the killerspiele hysteria, has a similarly sanitised demo. But guess what, it also runs 40 per cent faster. More »
Rumours

Any Objections To Phoenix Wright On The Wii?

2:20PM Luke Plunkett | Germany’s Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK), the country’s ratings board, have let slip a listing for an upcoming Phoenix Wright title. For the Wii. More »
Culture

How’d That Germany “Killer Game” Trashing Rally Go? (Eh….)

10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Over the weekend, a German advocacy group asked individuals to bring their “killer games” to the front of an opera house to throw away in a large dumpster. More »
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German Activist Group’s “Killer Game” Toss Makes Me Uncomfortable

8:30PM AJ Glasser | Game Politics reports that a German advocacy group wants people to bring their “killer games” to the front of an opera house to throw away. One lucky tosser (har, har) will win a signed jersey from a sports team. More »
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Swastika Gets Wolfenstein Pulled From German Shelves

3:40AM Owen Good | Nazi imagery is a big nein-nein in Germany, and the localised version of Wolfenstein was supposed to have removed all of it. A small swastika slipped through, and Activision is said to be recalling the game from shelves there. More »
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Diablo III: Some Versions Will Be Edited

4:30PM Luke Plunkett | The world is a big place. And what’s cool for one part of it may not be so cool for another. Take Diablo III, for example, which will have its violent content edited when its released in certain markets. More »
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EA Germany Exec Accuses Gov’t Of Game Censorship

12:40PM Owen Good | Wracked by a mass shooting partially blamed on games, the government considering a ban on “killerspiele” and developer Crytek threatening to leave, Germany’s firsthand experience in the violent games debate is like no other country’s right now. More »
News

You’re Wondering: How Many People Went To Gamescom?

10:30PM Luke Plunkett | Gamescom came, it did, it went. Seemed like a success from where we were sitting! But as a public event, the show’s success depended not only on media coverage, but on the number of punters through the door. More »
News

And Europe’s New “Biggest Market” Is…

8:00PM Luke Plunkett | The answer is pretty obvious to those who know their DDRs from FRGs, but if you haven’t the foggiest on where that image above is from, know that the United Kingdom is no longer the biggest games market. More »
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Brink, WET, Red Steel 2 Added To Growing Gamescom List

1:00AM Brian Crecente | With less than two weeks to go before Gamescom kicks off in Cologne, the list of games that will be present and playable continues to grow. More »