Singapore has banned the sale of an Xbox video game titled Mass Effect for featuring an intimate scene between two female characters. The Mass Effect game, a futuristic space adventure, contains “a scene of lesbian intimacy” where the Singapore’s media and censorship watchdog Media Development Authority (MDA) didn’t like.

Singapore is southeast Asia’s most advanced economy but the government maintains strict censorship laws.

Earlier this year the city-state banned two other video games, God of War II, for nudity; and The Darkness, for excessive violence and religiously offensive expletives.

As part of major revisions to the Penal Code approved by the sinpaore parliament last month, the country has legalised oral and anal sex between heterosexual couples but retained a law which criminalises intercourse between gay men.