Uh, so, Battlefield 3 has been banned in Iran, both the legitimate copies and the pirated copies. The reason should be obvious to many, right? In case, you don’t know, it’s because the game contains many scenarios where the US soldiers set foot in Iran. It also contains a few levels called ‘Tehran Highway’ and ‘Grand Bazaar’.

Iran’s police department called the game “illegal”. “All computer stores are prohibited from selling this illegal game,” they said.

EA’s released a statement, although, there is no authorized reseller for EA in Iran.

“In that Battlefield 3 is not available for purchase in Iran, we can only hope the ban will help prevent pirated copies reaching consumers there,” commented an EA employee when quizzed by Gamespot.

I think all of this is pretty pointless, don’t know why people even bother with trivial things like these.

Thanks, Gamespot.

Ripten’s reporting that gamers who have used cheats for CoD: Black Ops and updated to the latest firmware version released by Sony are being banned by Treyarch from playing online.

Here’s what one of the so called “innocent” users had to say regarding this:

Hi i have been banned for black ops when i click online it says you have been Prem banned from B.O but i didnt do anything to get banned what i did my m8 said he was 15th yea and i said let me go on ur acc then if ur 15th so i just went on his acc and he was 15th and then deleted the user then the next day when i went on my account that message came up my psn is FoRzA-MoNsTeR I am 6th prestige on B.o legit my KD is 1.79 and my wins to losses is 1.14 and a 124 winstreak i did not boost at all please unban me.

You can read the full report over here