most of asian region countries are depending on SINGAPORE to supply ORIGINAL games. DONT u think banning games will make PIRACY stronger in ASIA??

I was banned? Hmm... You sure? I live in Singapore! I just saw a picture of "The Darkness" box art on a local game store, for Sale. Out of Stock! Yeah, "BANNED IN S'PORE", like I believe.

Things aren't looking too good for Take Two then. Hopefully Grand Theft Auto IV won't be banned in the US and Canada. If they are, October won't be the most pleasant month for me. Like there's any other reason to have a 360.

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Screw Singapore! That country has been effectively run by the People's Action Party (my ***) since it's founding. Their media is effectively state-owned, and their government is full of hypocrites about talking democracy yet have law-and-order polices, and if a politically self-aware citizen makes any criticism, even one constructive, and even if its true, the PAP can sue that person into exile. God help the Singaporeans,they have to deal with the PAP for almost 50 years.

@ Sidewinder

Bullhog. Example, not ONE Starforce-protected game has as of this time managed to recover it's production costs. Dawn of War and Company of Heroes, two UNPROTECTED GAMES, have made bestsellers and one is pretty much widely reckoned as the strategygame of this CENTURY.

Seriously, ask yourself the following question: Why pay millions of dollars in licensing obstructive protection software that harms more casual users (SecuRom7 and Starforce are infamous for blocking LEGIT buyers from playing their game), and yet nothing more than a bit of more work for the pirates? SecuRom is cracked on the game's release date, Starforce a week later. The pirates still get the game, the casual buyers DON'T (after all, StarForce3 is known to sometimes corrupt windows dvd/cd drivers).

And so, with one announcement, Singapore lost half of its population; everyone rioted; the politician who made the announcement was thrown off of a cliff, and yet again, there was peace.

Singapore ranks also quite low on the Reporter's Without Border's ranking as well.....

At least I have one more country NOT to visit....

"Where you’ll get the deathpenalty for something that in other countries can get you only fined."

Only if you bring drugs into the country, then you're a dead man. As for entertainment stuff, I don't think that they will hang you for that. Man, this article makes me want to go back to my hometown England.

Hey wait a minute.... Singapore is my birthplace and I am staying in it now! Oh man....

Well, banning the game itself is rather stupid a pointless. The game itself is based off a comic book witch (in graphic detail) shows off what kind of deaths these demons can perform. So to ban the game, you should really also ban the comic. But you can't ban comics, they have tried, and failed. Comics, and games, are a form of expression from the creators and mainly the directors. To ban these media's is to ban their opinions from ever reaching the publics ears. We just have to sit here and wait out the wave of protests and slander that cover each new media. Just look at Rock-n-Roll, and rap, Those are accepted forms of art today, but when they first came around, they too were the voices of satin, and the causers of crime.

"Banned in Singapore"
Any other country and I might be surprised, but Singapore... saw that coming a mile away.

*sings "America, Fuck Yeah!"*

I want to try that game.

I'm happy to be an American.
IN AMERICA!

And Asia just continues with the game hatin'. First China cracks down on MMOs, then the Vietnamese press calls for a ban on computer games because of irresponsible parents/school staff, now this.

And yet they all still want to develop a globalized economy based on high-tech consumer goods. How pathetic.

Figures since it's a fascist police state that hangs people for possessing some Jamaican grass. Oh well since Singapore is a city-state, people can just cross the border to Indonesia and get it.....if they don't ban it too.

@ BmK

A result of piracy. Due to a lower amount of piracy on the consoles several studios are now targeting them instead of the PC marked. That's why Epic went to the consoles with Gears (or that's what my local gaming journalists says).

BTW anyone know when it will ported to PC?
I refuse to buy a new system to play crappy games on :P

i'm not surprised, singapores fascist conservative governmemnt outlaws stuff ranging from porn to chewing gum, as mentioned before. and i am not joking. those bastards will hang a guy just for having a dimebag of pot, the governments is run by pathetic prude pussies that deserve to rot in their own prisons.

I can rant about that hellhole all day if i felt like it, and dont get me started on freedom of speech, if i was living there right now, i would probably get six months in jail for "slandering" the governement, when everyone knows its the truth, you cant imagine how much i hate that place,my friend and i paid a couple thousand dollars just for littering, and i think he was fined even more just for bringing a pepsi on the subway, and no offence to anyone who might live there, but that place sucks ass

Game is out. It's short, and no worse than any other demonic violent game (Doom, Quake, etc). These developers need to finally realize consoles are the devil, and PCs will reign supreme in edgy titles. Plus, even if they do edit crap out just to get a rating, someone will almost definitely make a mod to mimic it, or release a leaked version of code, etc.

The creatures you can conjure, not to mention the snakies-of-a-sort that ride your shoulders during the game can do some really bad things to your enemies in the game. Bodies torn apart, hearts ripped out, basic dark forces inflicting gore upon the world.

And why was it banned???