The Blue-Ray region coding was just announced and apparently Japan, the US and East Asia will all have the some code. Nice. No word yet on whether this will hold true for Playstation 3 games. Unfortunately, it sucks to be Europ, which will be coded with Africa. Ouch.
Japan and U.S. to have the same Blue-Ray Region Coding [Game Hawg]
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