Call Of Duty: Black Ops Censored In Germany, Like Every Other Violent Game

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Is it ironic that the people who have offered us the game industry’s most killable and indeed most profitable opponents can’t enjoy the gruesome deaths of their virtual zombified forefathers at their own hands and in the same gory detail as the rest of us? We don’t really know the definition of irony, we just call everything we find weird ironic, like we hear hipsters do. Not that we want to be hipsters, the first part is ok, but it’s the -sters we can’t stand. If ever there were a tyrannical, pigeonholing suffix… What were we talking about?

Ah yes, German copies of Activision’s baby will need to be authorized through Steam, both retail and Steam copies. Will Steam catch the same flak for crapping on freedom of speech and aiding censorship like Google did? No, because people actually like Valve and this is more about not swimming in virtual human pancreases instead of outing political dissidents to a brutal political regime. Not to say that this is ok. It’s about as far from ok as you can get and still remain in civilized territory.