Singapore Media Development Authority lifts Mass Effect ban

The Singapore Media Development Authority (MDA) has lifted the ban it had earlier slapped on BioWare‘s controversial action role-playing game, Mass Effect, and has allowed the game to be released in Singapore under an M18 rating. The MDA officials had previously banned Mass Effect because of what they deemed to be an offensive scene in the game…

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The Singapore Media Development Authority (MDA) has lifted the ban it had earlier slapped on BioWare‘s controversial action role-playing game, Mass Effect, and has allowed the game to be released in Singapore under an M18 rating.

The MDA had banned BioWare’s Mass Effect due to a lovemaking scene between the female version of Commander Shepard and Liara T’Soni, a blue-skinned Asari alien. While this isn’t in the first time that BioWare has allowed the option of a lesbian relationship in one of its games, it marks the first time that BioWare has gone beyond mere suggestion and has shown the actual act of physical intimacy between lovers of the same sex (though with liberal use of fade outs strategic camera angles).

Before the MDA had lifted the ban on BioWare’s Mass Effect, Singapore had been the only country that had disallowed the game’s sale-an act which local and international gamers protested.