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Dead Space team: we are banned in Japan, we promise

Dead Space made waves when EA told game writers that the title was banned in …

Dead Space has been the topic of discussion for the past few days, but not for what the development team would like. Last week I received an e-mail from a member of the Community Team for the game at EA, talking about the release date getting bumped up and also claiming that the game had been banned in Germany, Japan, and China. Readers were a little surprised... banned in Japan? GamePolitics all but called the claim a publicity stunt.

While EA isn't officially commenting one way or the other yet, the game's Twitter feed tackled the subject head on. I'll let the posts speak for themselves:

So they're sticking by the claim that the game has been banned in those markets. I pinged the source of the original communication and was told the tweets come directly from the development team, and we should expect an official announcement on this matter very soon.

Was this all a big publicity stunt? It's hard to tell, but if it turns out that the game will be available in these markets, it will not look good; it does seem like everyone involved is more proud of these alleged bannings than worried about sales.