Activision has told IncGamers that the reports of mass withdrawals of the smash hit title, Modern Warfare 2, in Russia are fake.

News broke yesterday that the console version of MW2 in Russia had been withdrawn after a number of politicians and gamers there had complained about the infamous airport scene. We contacted Activision, who informed us that the story is untrue.

“Reports that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been banned in Russia are erroneous. Activision only released a PC version of the game in Russia which went on sale on Tuesday, Nov. 10.”

Comments

Valas Azuviir (1) Posted: 16:54 on 17 Nov 2009

Yeah, but there's a difference between someone else banning your game, and you voluntarily withdrawing your game from a market.

Asteria (2) Posted: 06:22 on 18 Nov 2009

Valas, why would Activision withdraw their game? If the government had really instructed all copies of the game to be removed (because it unfairly represented Russia) from shops wouldn't that apply to the PC version too? Also the console version wasn't apparently released in Russia so it seems the original source of this story is spinning a yarn.