Dead Space banned in three countries [UPDATE]; PC release date now behind consoles

Posted Sep 5th 2008 12:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Survival horror, Dead Space

Dead Space's mix of sci-fi and survival horror is apparently too much for some countries to take. According to a report on Destructoid this week, the Electronic Arts titled has been banned for sale in three countries so far; Germany, China and Japan. There's no specific word on why these three territories decided to ban the game but we can have some educated guesses.

It looks like PC owners will also have to wait a little bit for their port of Dead Space to be released as EA announced that the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions will now have a new release date of October 14. The PC version stays where it is with a release date of October 20.

Update: Eurogamer.de reports that Dead Space has not yet been banned in Germany, claiming that the game has yet to go through the country's rating system

Tags: dead-space, ea, electronic-arts

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Japan? Really?
That surprises me a lot. There has to be something else to this for the country that introduced the world to things like tentacle rape and guro to ban it.Posted at 12:49PM on Sep 5th 2008 by Lactose The Intolerant

I gotta get me some Dead Space!Posted at 7:24PM on Oct 14th 2008 by Wdmrat