Australian Government Backs Mature Games Classification
The Australian Federal Government has announced its support for a much needed adult games classification, R18+ rating, in Australia. A decision is expected to be made at the meeting of the countries attorneys general. A recent Galaxy survey has found strong support for the classification, counting for 80 percent of the people surveyed favoring the [...]
Rebellion Refuses To “Water Down” Aliens vs. Predator
Alien vs. Predator has received an amazing amount of press, because of the overwhelming amount of violence throughout the game. However, Rebellion, it’s developer, have refused to edit AvP for any country, including Australia. In a recent interview, Rebellion Studios’ Martin Kennedy and Alex Moore openly spoke about Alien vs. Predator being banned. “It’s just [...]
Aliens vs. Predator Unbanned In Australia
When in a convosation, Australia is a topic that every developer hates to talk about — mainly because their games, if violent, get banned within a split scond in Australia. But, not Rebellion. Because Australia’s Classification Review Board has reversed their decision to ban Aliens vs. Predator in Australia, with no content to be changed or removed. [...]
Velvet Assassin Is Keeping Its Drug References
When Australia threatened to ban Fallout 3, because of drug references in-game, Bethesda Softworks was quick to react and remove them. But, that is not going to be the case with Velvet Assassin. When viewing the demo version of Velvet Assassin last week, Patrick from MTV’s Multiplayer Blog noticed that the main character uses morphine [...]
MadWorld Allowed In Australia, Yea…
After Australia banned such games as Manhunt 2 and Dark Sector, it caused fear by SEGA that they would also be banning their game, MadWorld. But, that doesn’t seem to be the case because they have allowed the game into the country. Today, we learned that the sale of Platinum Games ultra bloody MadWorld will [...]
Australia Gets Early Look At Midnight Club: LA?
Rockstar has revealed that Australian gamers will getting the chance of play there upcoming street racing game, Midnight Club: LA, early. They will be taking an an exclusive pre-release demo of Midnight Club Los Angeles featuring the MCLA Saleen 302E to the locations listed below: 30th August – Shadow Wars (Manning Bar Sydney University) 13th-14th [...]
Fallout 3 Gets “Modified” For Australia
According to Gamer Chip, a modified version of Fallout 3 will be hitting in Australia later this year. This news comes after OFLC refused the classification of the game, which made it seem very doubtable it would ever see the light of in the day down under. There’s still no official word from Bethesda Games, [...]
Dark Sector Gets Re-Classified In Australia
We have some good news and some bad news, the good news is there’s no bad news. According to a report made by PALGN , the OFLC has re-classified Dark Sector and it looks like the game will be hitting stores in australia very soon. The game will be coming in a new version, this [...]
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