UPDATE 4.30pm UK: Eurogamer has received the following visual statement from Hotline Miami 2 publisher Devolver Digital, in response to today’s news:
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Eurogamer’s original story follows.
ORIGINAL STORY 1pm UK:
PlayStation has removed Hotline Miami 2 from sale in Australia and refunded PS5 owners who bought the game, a decade on from the infamous kerfuffle over its release down under.
Back in January 2015, designer Jonatan Söderström memorably told Aussie fans to simply pirate Hotline Miami 2 after its release was blocked by the notoriously-strict Australian Classification Board, due to its inclusion of a skippable scene that showed simulated sexual violence.
But all of that seemed to have been smoothed over last October, when Hotline Miami 1 and 2 got a native release on PS5 in the country. Indeed, Hotline Miami 2 was later added to the PlayStation Plus Extra catalogue too.
12 months on from its PS5 arrival, however, Australian owners of the game on PS5 are suddenly receiving refunds – as someone, seemingly at the ACB, has once again stepped in to enforce the board’s original ruling.
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