Opinion by Matt S. Frankly, of all the insane things that have happened in the games industry this year, the response to the following non-event takes the cake: two Australian department stores, Target and Kmart, have decided to stop selling GTA V following complaints from customers. Boom. Over the last…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Idea Factory excited fans when it revealed that it was indeed localising ultra-niche card battler Monster Monpiece for the west. Then Idea Factory annoyed fans by admitting that it was doing a bit of self censorship, with a fair portion of the Japanese game’s art being…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. It’s nothing new that games and sex have been a controversial mix when it comes to the games industry. From the earliest days of Leisure Suit Larry, the mere suggestion of sexual activity within a game has been enough to court the ire of both the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Well, those rumours that we reported on not long ago have panned out to be true; card-battling strategy game, Monster Monpiece, is indeed heading out to the west. This is something that we never thought would happen, given Monster Monpiece’s risque premise, and it’s quite an…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Bravely Default is one of the finest games on the 3DS. Released in Europe and Australia in time for Christmas, we scored it a full 5-stars for being a beautiful mix of both nostalgia, and new approaches to game design. I hadn’t played the Japanese version…
Read MoreMugen Souls was a bit of a weird game, but back when it was released I rather loved it. It was silly, but charming and its ridiculously deep combat mechanics kept me playing for some time. But it was also a remarkably controversial release for NISA (the publisher) and Compile…
Read MoreOver the last couple of days the gamers in Australia have experienced something that is nothing short of a farce with two games in two days being refused classification for some truly ridiculous reasons. Saint’s Row IV was effectively banned because it features a weapon that looks like a sex…
Read MoreIn two days the Australian Classification Board has shown its true colours. That R18+ rating, which was introduced on the promise that the Board recognised the rights for Australian adults to play the kinds of games that children should not be playing, was a lie – the Board plans to…
Read MoreProving further that the R18+ rating is a complete farce in Australia, the Classification Board has seen fit to ban the release of Saint’s Row IV. The game was Refused Classification (RC), meaning that retailers cannot sell the product, on the basis that interactive, visual depictions of implied sexual violence…
Read MoreAustralia’s first R18+ game has formally been released. Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2+, a enhanced version of a game that wasn’t rated R18+ when it was first released half a decade ago, is now on store shelves, ready for “adult” consumption. To celebrate the occasion, Mark Serrels over at Kotaku AU…
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