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Namco Bandai's Splatterhouse, a re-imagining of the violent arcade classic, has been banned in Germany.

The news comes with no surprise considering the brutal violence on display, but Germany's hammer has landed on less worthy games, such as Treyarch's recent Call of Duty: Black Ops - if only be preventing uncut imports.

Still, Splatterhouse is due for release on November 26th on 360 and PS3.

Namco Bandai has today announced that the third-person action game Knights Contract will be released in Europe and North America in 2011 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The game centres on the characters Heinrich (an immortal executioner) and Gretchen (a resurrected witch) who must do battle with supernatural forces.

Full PR after the jump.

At last some sense. Namco Bandai believes that game prices have risen too high. Namco Bandai vice president Olivier Comte feels that publishers need to get costs down via shorter games so the saving can be passed on to retailers.