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MTV Multiplayer » Sega Working Closely With ESRB On Ultra-Violent ‘MadWorld,’ Japanese Release May Not Happen

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“MadWorld” is one of the most anticipated third-party Wii games and perhaps the most violent. Though sporting a black-and-white aesthetic, there’s plenty of blood. At the first day of Nintendo’s fall summit in San Francisco, a pair of Sega representatives showed me an updated build of ...

joystiq.com - 10/6/2008

Sega re-working MadWorld controls, game still looks awesome

— joystiq.com — Excitement quickly turned to disappointment when we realized that Sega and Platinum Games' super-stylized Wii action title,... MadWorld , was up-and-running on two kiosks at Nintendo's Fall Media Summit ... but wasn't actually playable by the ... (more) Sega re-working MadWorld controls, game still looks awesome

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Kotaku: MadWorld To Be Released In The US And...Uh... [Madworld]

Joystiq: Sega working with ESRB on MadWorld rating

Joystiq [Nintendo]: Platinum working toward HappyESRB with MadWorld

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MadWorld To Be Released In The US And...Uh... [Madworld]
Kotaku — ... - even be shown at TGS, and releases in other "sensitive" markets - like Germany and Australia - are "not part of Sega’s strategy right now". Bummer. Best you Germans and us Australians can hope for is that the classification boards go easy on it on the grounds it's "comic" violence. Sega Working Closely With ESRB On Ultra-Violent ‘MadWorld,’ Japanese Release May Not Happen [MTV]

Sega working with ESRB on MadWorld rating
Joystiq — ... In an interesting gesture of cooperation, it appears that Sega is working with the ESRB to make sure that MadWorld releases with an "M" rating in the US. MTV Multiplayer reports that the publisher has been submitting new builds to the ESRB and ...

Platinum working toward HappyESRB with MadWorld
Joystiq [Nintendo] — ... How do you keep the ESRB from destroying a game like MadWorld, built as it is almost entirely around ridiculously overblown, graphic violence? By warning them, mostly. In order to avoid the dreaded, sales-killing AO rating, Platinum Games and ...