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Mortal Kombat II: Confiscated by the district court of Munich in 1995 for violating German Criminal Code section 131 (depictions of violence). [98] [99] The ban was lifted in October 2019 and removed from the List of Media Harmful to Young People in March 2020. [100] Mortal Kombat 3
The Mortal Kombat series, particularly its "Fatalities", was a source of major controversy in at the time of its release. [note 1] A moral panic over the series, fueled by outrage from the mass media, [6] resulted in a Congressional hearing and helped to pave the way for the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) game rating system.
A significant turning point was the rejection of an indexing of Mortal Kombat X and the granting of an 18+ rating by the USK. [27] [28] Mortal Kombat X was the first part of the series to receive approval from the USK in Germany; until then, many titles in the series had been indexed or even confiscated.
In the German release, swastikas were covered with black boxes on zombies. [42] Left 4 Dead 2 – In Australia, the game was originally banned due to the high levels of violence in the gameplay. Valve then submitted a 'censored' version of the game which no longer contained images of "decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead ...
The German version was specifically censored due to the use of Nazi- and Hitler-related imagery, including swastikas and Nazi salutes, which are prohibited under German law, outside of the context of "art or science, research or teaching". [208] The PC version remains completely uncut in Europe. [209] 2015: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number: PC ...
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in "the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history," the White House announced Thursday ...
Mortal Kombat X was released worldwide (except Germany) for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on April 14, 2015. For reasons relating to the initial refusal by the German USK to issue the game with an age rating, the official German release of Mortal Kombat X was delayed until September 1, 2015.
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