PlayStation has removed a banned PS5 game – also available on PS4 – after its release was accidentally allowed on the PlayStation Store. Additionally, it removed the PS5/PS4 game from the library of any PS5/PS4 user who purchased the game, thus offering refunds. The strange thing about this development is that it took months for this to happen. The game in question has been available for months, but Sony is only now starting to remove all traces of the game from PSN. What took so long is unclear.

Luckily, if you’re in the US or many other parts of the world – where this PS5/PS4 game is available – you don’t have to worry. The game was not completely banned from PSN, but simply banned from PSN in certain regions of the world. Australia is one such region of the world. Despite this, it has been available to purchase on the Australian PSN for months. But not anymore.

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Any Australian PSN user who has recently noticed that Hotline Miami 2 is no longer in their library is because it was never supposed to be there in the first place. And that’s because it was never planned for release in Australia. Indeed, it has never been submitted for review in the region, given the region’s reputation for restricting, limiting, and banning games depicting sexual content, drug content, or content excessively violent. Also because the Australian rating board had previously restricted the game’s release on Nintendo Switch.

Hotline Miami 2 offers at most the three types of content above. To this end, one scene, in particular, depicting sexual assault, caused considerable controversy during the game’s initial release and undoubtedly played a major role in its restriction/limitation/banning in certain parts of the world.

PlayStation hasn’t given any insight into how the game got to Australia’s PSN, but it’s not the first game to slip past Sony’s certification team. What it did was start alerting PS5 and PS4 users who had it in their library that it was now gone, with a refund in its place.

For those unfamiliar with Hotline Miami 2 – or Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number as its full title – is a 2015 game and sequel to the popular 2012 game, Hotline Miami. It was developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital.

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