The global gaming market is still a fractured one, with different cultural sensibilities meaning titles that work well in one territory may not fly in another -- first person shooters traditionally never did well in Japan, while visual novels were anathema to most western gamers, for instance.
Proving that it's good to keep abreast of differences in regional tastes, Koei Tecmo has confirmed it won't be bringing Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 to EU countries or America -- because it fears a backlash over how the game represents women. For those unfamiliar with the series, it "represents" them as scantily clad beach babes with barely contained breasts.
By: Matt Kamen,
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