Around the time that Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus was released worldwide (27 October 2017), I remember visiting my local hardware store, Saturn. There were banners advertising the game running the entire length of the escalators that le...

[Update: EA Sports has issued a statement saying that it erred in censoring Colin Kaepernick's mention from "Big Banks." According to the developer, it didn't have permission to use Kaepernick's likeness in the game (apparently becaus...

Mafia III is a violent and controversial title. Mixing race politics and the Vietnam war alongside themes of PTSD and urban violence will do that to your open-world adventure. In fact, the game's original opening was so intense, that it was...

Valve doesn't feel as if it has any real responsibility to police the vast majority of the content that gets published on Steam. In the wake of controversy surrounding the removal of erotic visual novels and a new game that simulates a scho...

Did you know that it's possible to run automatically? If you're blown away by this revelation, don't worry, I was too. This is a mechanic that the...

Today sees the unleashing of hellish survival horror title Agony. The first-person adventure sees the player take charge of a Matyr, fated to Hell, who must escape the underworld by coming face-to-face with the terrifying Red Goddess.The ga...

Over the past few weeks, Super Seducer has earned quite the reputation on YouTube and Twitter. The game, headed by self-proclaimed "seduction guru" Richard La Ruina, is an FMV choose your own adventure title with the goal being to learn "tr...

PQube have announced that their up and coming, erm, love-'em-up(?) sequel, Gal*Gun 2 has been refused classification in Germany, making it illegal for the game to be sold within the country's borders.Gal*Gun 2 (ironically the fourth game in...

For one reason or another, China has banned access to the Steam community forums for all Chinese users. Users in that region can still purchase titles from the Steam storefront, but they won't be able to engage in discussion or utilize any ...

Uzbekistan has banned these 34 games, meaning it's, "illegal to import and distribute the games across the central Asian country," according BBC. The list is kind of haphazard, spanning over 20 years (1995's Phantasmagoria and 1997's Carmag...

Among various adjustments made in yesterday's 1.1 patch for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Nintendo stated "Inkling Girl’s animation has been adjusted." Why? Turns out she was giving the "up yours!" gesture that's akin to the middle finger in p...

Localization is the process of adapting incidental details of a work to better fit the region it is being exported to. Sometimes it is done inelegantly, like when Pokemon's Brock holds a handful of onigiri (rice balls wrapped with dried sea...

Someone is finally speaking some sense. Following the Australian Classification Board's banning of Outlast II, Senator David Leyonhjelm blasted the Australian Senate regarding video game censorship. Leyonhjelm argues the laws related t...

Gal Gun Double Peace has been deemed "objectionable" by the Film and Video Labeling Body of New Zealand, which in other words means it is no longer available for purchase or consumption through legal means in the country. They found th...

Russia is at it again. Russian MPs have sent a letter of complaint to the communications oversight and state consumer protection agencies asserting that FIFA 17 may be in violation of Russia's 2013 "gay propaganda" law that claims the prese...

Iran has become the first country to ban the hugely popular Pokemon Go. The decision was made by The High Council of Virtual Spaces, the wonderfully-named authority on such things.. According to the BBC, the ban is related to "unspecified s...

Unable to garner any media coverage for its upcoming JRPG, the publisher of Sun Blanket Star Pastry Chef ReB;rth confirmed today it has altered one of the costumes in the game just so somebody would start paying attention to it. Kevin ...

Dead or Alive Extreme 3: Fortune is an objectively excellent game, that much is not up for debate. This is despite the fact that Jed "Jed!" Whitaker reviewed it here and found it to have earned only 1.5 out of 10 points because of re-used a...

People are keen on calling out Nintendo for anything they view as censorship when it comes to localization these days, but what about the games of old? Where is the outrage over what very well may be the first case of Nintendo denying fans ...

Germany banned Fallout 3 in 2009 over its violent content (it also missed India and, briefly, was under fire in Australia). Eventually a censored version was offered for German players, but the original, uncensored version is no longer bann...

We've waited nearly 10 years for Nintendo to officially localize Mother 3. The wait has been so long, it's started to seem like an impossibility. However, due to some rumors over the past week, it's beginning to feel more and...

The controversial stalking and murdering game Yandere Simulator has been banned from being streamed on Twitch, joining the likes of BMX XXX, Hatred, and Second Life. This isn't all that surprising considering YouTube removed one o...

Feminist Frequency's latest episode in the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series has revealed a shocking amount of censorship that has slipped beneath our noses: the butts of male characters have been systematically censored for year...

[Update: Marvelous' channel has been restored.] Marvelous Entertainment, the publisher of many booby games such as the Senran Kagura series and the upcoming lesbians-that-turn-into-weapons game Valkyrie Drive, has had its YouTube accou...

It pains me that some game publishers and developers feel the need to arbitrarily add or remove sexual content to their games in order to make them more marketable, but that need is an inevitable part of any art business. If you're a game p...

It wasn't long ago that Capcom claimed Chun-Li's absurd level of boob movement in Street Fighter V was a "glitch" and it was working on a fix before the game was released. I wonder if it will also claim that R. Mika's original super-ending ...