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"Developed by acclaimed developer Digital Extremes, Dark Sector, thrusts players into the role of Hayden Tenno, an elite black-ops agent sent on a dangerous mission into a decaying Eastern European city that hides a deadly Cold War secret. Attacked by an unknown enemy, he awakens to find part of his body altered by an infection that has granted him inhuman abilities; now he must learn to evolve along with his powers, to survive and to become a hero.

Dark Sector is currently available for th..."

""I find censorship today in Australia a mass of confusing and conflicting laws..." -- Bill Hayden, Former Governor-General of Australia

Dark Sector, Manhunt, Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, Reservoir Dogs, BMX XXX, Blitz: The League, and Postal 2. What do all these games have in common?

All of the above games are banned for sale in Australia, casualties of our country's strict games classification system. While other forms of media (such as films and DVDs) have ratings..."

"Their unholy alliance seems to be paying off as everyone’s favourite Plumber and Hedgehog have topped the UK’s all format charts again this week. This game is proving to be a beast that will not be slain, consistently rising and falling in the charts just to climb to the top spot again. Not only is the game number one overall but first on the Wii and second on the DS charts, cementing the fact that I am the only one who finds the premise of a stunted overweight Italian posing anything that ev..."

"Dark Sector was one of the first announced games for the PS3. After several major delays and revamps, Dark Sector has finally been released by Digital Extremes.

You are in control of Hayden, a reluctant CIA operative, sent into a near-future fictional country named Lasria in order to neutralize a man named Mezner, who is responsible for unleashing the mysterious biological agents which have ravaged the capital city of Lasria.

After a failed attempt to assassinate Mezner, you are subsequ..."

"In its report, the Board describe Dark Sector as a "violent and sometimes gruesome game with a sinister storyline and ominous outcome. The violence and aggression inflicted upon the protagonist is of a high level, naturalistic and not stylised at all."

While the Board notes that the violence in the game takes place in the context of Hayden's mission to "defeat a scientist that has infected people with a mutant virus," the report spends several paragraphs detailing the most excessive exampl..."

"D3 Publisher of America has today announced that award-winning Hollywood actor Michael Rosenbaum is to lend his considerable vocal talents to core protagonist Hayden Tenno in upcoming sci-fi action extravaganza Dark Sector.

Rosenbaum is perhaps best know for his tormented performances as the dysfunctional (and distinctly bald headed) Lex Luthor on hit American television show ‘Smallville,’ which charts the early years in the life of Superman."

"PSU: The motion sensing feature of the SIXAXIS controller surprised most developers when it was announced because most did not know about it. Was it with the same with vibration (DualShock 3) support, or have you known about it for some time?

Carter: One of the nice things about developing our own engine (Dark Sector is running on our Evolution Engine) is that we can easily plug-in new cool features like DualShock 3. We did get a heads up from Sony prior to the announcement, so I wouldn't..."

"You love demos. We love demos. Companies have slowly but surely started jumping on the playable bandwagon -- someone tell Factor 5 that might have been a good idea for Lair -- and D3 Publishing and Digital Extremes are the latest to toss in with Dark Sector.
At Games Convention 2007, the companies confirmed to 1UP that a Dark Sektor demo is currently in the works for both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live between October and November -- they're still confirming an exact date with Sony an..."

"D3Publisher of Europe Ltd. (D3PE), a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, has announced its highly anticipated Dark Sector title for PLAYSTATION®3 and Xbox 360 will be released across Europe on January 22nd, 2008.

Developed by acclaimed developer Digital Extremes, co-creators behind the award-winning Epic Game’s Unreal franchise, Dark Sector is an all-new and original action-thriller that offers players a dark, gritty experience packed with fast action, incredible..."

"We recently received a ruling from the ESRB stating that the two officially released Dark Sector gameplay montages have been deemed to contain excessive or offensive content; and to this end are not to be available for download or viewing, regardless of being placed behind an age gate. In order to comply with this ruling, the ESRB has requested that the two Dark Sector gameplay montages be pulled immediately upon receipt of this notice and no longer made available for view by consumers."

"According to FiringSquad, Dark Sector, "the first ever next-gen game," has been delayed:

Originally scheduled for release this fall, a spokesperson for the game's publisher D3Publishing has now told FiringSquad, "We've decided to pull Dark Sector out of a very crowded holiday season and it is now slated for release in Q1 2008." The questions about the release date for the game began after retail sites like Gamestop showed a new Jan. 15 2008 release date for Dark Sector.
The "Coming Early..."