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Nintendo has used YouTube's copyright system to manually remove Censored Gaming's video on the Fire Emblem Engage fan translation. This professional report used a minimal amount of game footage to report on the story. Additionally, there were no links to the patch in the video.
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This could be one for the history books. The Switch version of '20 Ladies' includes, well, 20 ladies. Due to platform regulation issues, the PlayStation version is being retitled '20 Bunnies' and will feature bunnies instead.
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Whilst not officially released in the region, sales of Animal Crossing: New Horizons have suddenly been banned in China, with this suspected to be due to Hong Kong protests within the game and its popularity on social media.
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Following Sony's censorship Nekopara is now rated ESRB E, unlike Nintendo Switch where it's ESRB M
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Nintendo has reaffirmed that they believe existing 3rd party rating systems and parental controls are the best approach to content regulation. This is from Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa at this year's Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
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Why Visions of Mana Is Avoiding 'Westernizing' The Game
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Like A Dragon’s Creator Said It's Designed For Japanese Players, Not Western
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Nier: Automata creator Yoko Taro discusses differences between Western and Japanese views on sexuality
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Big News: Playasia Is Now Localizing And Publishing Japanese Games!
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4Kids killed Brock's Mom off in Episode 5 without realising she would actually make an appearance in later episodes
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How Japanese Games Are Being Made With ‘Global Standards’ In Mind
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Sony has now confirmed the existence of a new "content policy" for certain sexual content. Source:
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Nintendo Has Manually Taken Down Our Fire Emblem Engage Video
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Regarding the recent Devil May Cry 5 butt censor controversy. Capcom has now removed the censor in the US PS4 version's new update - making it the same as other platforms as well as all Japanese versions
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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, one of the world's most celebrated contemporary fiction authors, has this message for the young aspiring creators of today
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2015's Hatred, one of the few games to be given an ESRB Adults Only rating for violence alone, has just been announced to coming to Nintendo Switch.
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Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters is being patched "to comply with the T ESRB rating." The patch will also be applied in Europe for parity.
The update changes text/audio, and Idea Factory has provided a comparison of the content affected. The game was originally released on Jan 24.
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Fatal Fury Producer Is Still Unhappy Mai Was Not In Smash Bros.
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YouTube has announced that community subtitles will be removed 28/9.
Censored Gaming greatly made use of this feature & I made sure to check for new submissions every day. I want to thank everyone who provided contributions over the years & let you know it was very appreciated.
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It's been announced that the Japanese version of RoboCop: Rogue City will not censor any of the violence.
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This Chinese game just removed all Taiwanese players from the game, over the term "Wuhan virus" being used in chat - that's 1.5 million Taiwanese players.
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Gaming ads used to not be afraid of being provocative
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Fan Patch Released For Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters That Removes ESRB Censorship
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So somebody flagged our recent Mortal Kombat video for "spam" and YouTube actually reviewed it and took the video down, leaving us with a strike. Needless to say, the video didn't break any rules and wasn't "spam"
@TeamYouTube
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In 2018 the White House posted a video on "Violence in Video Games." Here was the response.
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A reminder to all gamers - we have your back if the White House tries to pull this again
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Big news for ecchi RPG fans! Omega Labyrinth Life has been confirmed to include full English language options for its Asian release! This is the only way to get the game in English and, as always, Playasia has you covered
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Nintedo Affirms They Won't Censor 3rd Party Games
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An Retranslation Mod Is Now Available For Fire Emblem Engage
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Interestingly the very first image on the Steam store is of Intimacy Mode, the feature that Sony forced to be removed from the PS4 release
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> Western TV show criticises China's strict censorship
> Said show then gets completely purged from Chinese internet
#SouthPark
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Nora to Oujo to Noraneko Heart released in Japan recently on PS4 and NS and several CG scenes have been censored on PS4 but not NS. No word on why this is yet but both platforms have the same CERO D (17+) age rating.
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To add, the video was a news story that simply reported on the patch's existence. It didn't provide instructions on how to use it or anything of that nature.
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The English release of Senran Kagura: Peach Ball will have no changes from the original Japanese version
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"Taiwan will not censor a game where you pick up tree branches and grow turnips." Here's what the Taiwanese prime minister has to say about the Chinese Animal Crossing ban:
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In the Japanese version of MW2 "no Russian" was mistranslated to "kill them, they are Russians"... This mistake went on to become legendary in the Japanese gaming community, but it's now been fixed for the remastered version and Japanese Twitter is going crazy!
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As previously discussed, Snatcher has to be censored to be released on consoles in Japan in modern times, due to the Japanese rating system CERO forbidding topless nudity. And now that the PC Engine Mini is out, here's how the depiction of Lisa was handled for the new release.
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GBATemp users are attempting to restore the original Japanese content to Tokyo Mirage Sessions on Switch. Considering this involves transferring Wii U data to Switch, work is challenging but quite a lot of progress has been made. Check the thread out here:
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The new Like A Dragon game is bringing back live-action graphics—this time utilizing them for the long-running cabaret club minigame.
Will we see more video games implement live-action graphics? And in what new ways may this style be used?
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The new South Park episode entitled "Band In China" focuses on China's strict censorship of media
During the episode China tasks the gang with having to kill Winnie the Pooh. In real life, Winnie the Pooh is defacto banned in China due to memes comparing him to China's president
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When censorship makes things look even lewder...
(From the anime New Game! which broadcast in Korea recently and censored underwear)
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China is set to launch its state-run authentication system for games in September. Game profiles will be tied to player's real names & ID numbers. This is a part of China's plans to crackdown on minors playing too many games & comes with the already imposed time/spending limits.
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The end of the new Omega Labyrinth Life trailer features random stock images to promote the PS4 "family friendly version"... this is after 6 mins of ecchi-packed action from the uncensored Switch release
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The UK porn blocks will officially start July 15th, the government have just announced
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YouTube already manually reviewed this video & confirmed it's suitable for all advertisers. Then somebody flags it & they decide to not just disable all ads but also 18+ age restrict it. This is not acceptable. It's clear something is wrong with the system when this is happening
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Dokapon Kingdom: Connect Costume Changes Are In Both The Japanese & English Versions
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Here's a change that was made in the English version of the new Pokémon anime - Pokémon Journeys: The Series.
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As was expected, the video about the history of Japan's manji symbol was demonetized. This is despite getting a great sponsor on-board this video who of course had no issues working with our content!
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"The curse word's first known appearance was written in a poem, and recorded by a bored Scottish student while on lockdown in Edinburgh during the plague."
Relevant.
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The game has only just come out and Japanese fans have already figured out how to remove Peach's skirt censor... Apparently the light from Ness' forward throw does this
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Why The Term “Sony Check” Has Become Popular In Japan
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The latest game to fall afoul of Sony's content policy is now the upcoming visual novel game Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blue. See below for publisher PQube's statement on the censorship.
Note: the Nintendo Switch release will be uncensored.
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This video has now been reuploaded multiple times and continues to get swamped with negative comments etc
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Cyberconnect2 CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama recently discussed being instructed by Sony to remove violence from 2016's Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4. The game being less violent in certain story scenes from the manga/anime is something that we until now had no official explanation for.
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Nintendo Localization Job Listing Requires "Awareness Of Culturalization & DE&I"
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How The The Last Of Us Part II Was Censored In Japan
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Censored Gaming covers how media is changed around the world and "anything and everything" in this area. Censorship, regional differences, translation, localization, culture and more. Consider following us for an informative, facts-first approach to news and special features.
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Excited about the English announcement for Metal Wolf Chaos XD? Well it turns out the West was supposed to get the original game 15 years ago, but it was cancelled due to 9/11
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Spike Chunsoft has revealed that the Steam release of Conception PLUS will not be censored, unlike the English console release
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In 1995 comedians Penn and Teller created the game Desert Bus. It required 8 hours of real life continuous play to complete and there was almost zero scenery. Their goal? The game was designed to be as inoffensive as possible and to poke fun at the violent video game moral panic.
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Stellar Blade Creator Discusses Its Character Designs
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Sega Japan Has Shared The Report On Japanese Games & ‘Global Standards’
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> exceedingly important vote that could fundamentally change the internet as we know it
> oh lets change the voting order halfway through and confuse everybody
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The Yakuza 3 PS4 Remaster has just been released in English territories and it's confirmed to contain all of the content from the Japanese version. This is the first time that Yakuza 3 has been released in English uncut!
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Sony Regulations Are Causing Games To Be Redesigned From The Ground Up
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The Epic vs Apple court case is set to begin May 3rd and could result in massive changes to the industry. Epic is fighting to allow developers to self-distribute their content on iOS devices, following Fortnite being banned for trying to distribute outside the App Store last year
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PlayStation Has Forced Lisa: Definitive Edition To Censor Content - Other Platforms Are Unaffected
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Whilst still hugely toned down from the Switch version, the PS4 version of Nora to Oujo is having "Scene Enhancement Patches" to update the censored art
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Nintendo used to be one of the strictest copyright holders around and now look at them
If only more anime and TV companies saw the same light Nintendo did and content creators didn't have to face constant issues when talking about these things
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In the Sakurai Presents Min Min video, the close up of Sakurai's console collection got removed in the English version, despite everything else being kept the same.
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Kenichiro Takaki, creator of the Senran Kagura series, has revealed that he has left Marvelous over various creative restrictions he's been facing the past year. Full interview here:
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To once again clear up a few misconceptions about Japan.
CERO was introduced in 2002 and has banned topless nudity in all games, even ones with the max adults only CERO Z rating, ever since. No CERO rated games released in Japan have ever contained nudity. (1/6)
As previously discussed, Snatcher has to be censored to be released on consoles in Japan in modern times, due to the Japanese rating system CERO forbidding topless nudity. And now that the PC Engine Mini is out, here's how the depiction of Lisa was handled for the new release.
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The PS1's Alundra was originally going to feature this joke, but Sony made Working Designs take it out
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Aussie Senator introduces free speech bills
"The message behind my bill is clear: if you don’t want to read a particular book, then don’t. If you don’t wanna watch a particular film, then don’t. And if you don’t want to play a particular game, then don’t"
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Due to recent government policy changes, PUBG mobile in China has been relaunched as an anti-terrorist themed game titled "Game for Peace", where defeated players don't die but simply wave their hands to say goodbye
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Images of Winnie the Pooh from Kingdom Hearts 3 are being censored in China due to the country's history of censorship issues with the yellow bear
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YouTube has put an 18+ age restriction on the channel's new Yu-Gi-Oh video. This is ridiculous. Everything in the video is from the show. And Yu-Gi-Oh is a show whose target market is "kids" - not 18!
All reporting in the video is also kept professional and brief.
@TeamYouTube
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Following yesterday's announcement that Aokana will be censored on PS4 but not Switch, PQube are now gauging fan interest on how to handle the PS4 release. They've said they're considering no longer releasing the game physically on PS4, and just digitally, due to lack of demand.
Please share this so we get the best answer possible! 👇
If you knew a game had altered content on one platform, would you:
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The Great Ace Attorney has just received a full fan translation! Neither it or its sequel have been officially released in English
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Today is
#NationalAnimeDay
and so here's a reminder of one of the thousands of changes made to Yu-Gi-Oh! by 4Kids
...in America.
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Like A Dragon Boss Says Games Influence Real Life Violence
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Western Version Graphical Differences Found In Blue Protocol Datamine
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So Panty Party just released for Nintendo Switch and involves lots of anime characters battling it out in arena battles with their panties (Yes, panties)
It's been rated E10+ in NA and ages 7+ in EU
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Via Reddit it's been discovered that Final Fantasy X-2 on Switch requires the cartridge even though it was provided as a download code. The Asian version however includes both games physically on the cart and are fully in English! Check it out at
@playasia
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It appears the western branch of Sony has made XSEED tone down the upcoming
Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal. The Steam version will remain uncensored
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Omega Labyrinth Life will be released in two versions in Japan. The Nintendo version will be uncensored, whilst Sony's has suggestive content toned down. The PS4 version also comes with a new name - being called just "Labyrinth Life" instead
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Congrats to
@playasia
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@eastasiasoft
for releasing Moero Crystal H in the West!
Hopefully this new localization/publishing partnership will see many more JP-exclusive titles released in future 🎮
Out now via the eShop and physical copies at Playasia
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How The English Version Of Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Added “Simping” Dialogue
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For Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition, the US version of Sistermon Noir is used in EU versions too, unlike the original release. There is however a way to revert the changes (on PC) as shown in the post below.
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Marvelous has said that games with sexual themes are becoming harder to make. This was during their financial results conference and they also said that a sexual element has had to be removed from an upcoming title, lowering the sales forecast
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This video takes a look at some of the new recent Sony censorship that's been going on in the video game industry
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Nintendo has confirmed on the official website that the Japanese version of Tokyo Mirage Sessions Encore is based on the Western version and will feature changes
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YouTube gives warning on the Article 13 copyright legislation
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