Opinion by Matt S. It was brought to my attention today that the upcoming Atelier Rorona Plus has been rated R18+ for its release in Australia by the Classification Board. My thoughts? Morons. According to the Classification Board, the rating is because the game refers to sexual violence, as so therefore…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. So I finally got around to picking up a PlayStation 4 (side note to other Australians, you still need to preorder for shipments at EB Games. Who knows when the console will be available on the shelves). That in turn meant that my first PlayStation 4…
Read MoreUPDATE: Games industry legal professional, Josh Cavaleri, has confirmed for me over Twitter that the publishers will not need to front the cost of the re-review. No, the Australian taxpayers will foot the bill. What a way to use our money, folks. Twelve MA15+ rated games are going to go…
Read MoreWith Call Of Duty: Ghosts, the Australian Classification Board again lets down the Australian public
Opinion by Matt S. The Australian Classification Board has seen fit to give Call of Duty: Ghosts a MA15+ rating. This is the second-highest classification available in Australia and is intended to bar children under the age of 15 from playing the game under any capacity. But it isn’t the…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Yesterday, Australian industry body, iGEA, and Bond University, released the Digital Australia 2014 report. This report has been an annual release since 2005, and charts the demographics of people that play games within Australia, as well as their attitude towards games. The full report can be…
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…
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