Japanese Publisher Wipes North Korea References From Homefront
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Posted by Donster on: 2011-02-07 15:23:47 354
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By Jason Schreier @ Wired.com
First-person sci-fi shooter Homefront posits what might happen if North Korea invaded the United States. But the Japanese version tells a slightly different tale.
THQ will publish Homefront, created by New York City developer Kaos Studios, in the U.S. on March 16. In Japan, it will be published on April 14 by Spike, a company that specializes in publishing Western games like Dragon Age II and Metro 2033.
Spike says that it will remove all mentions of North Korea from the game, according to its official website (Japanese, via Andriasang). The country attacking America will instead be referred to as “A Certain Country to the North,” run by the “Northern Leader.”
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