I never thought I’d use curse words on this website, but this warrants it. Last week, the puritanical SWERF, TERF, anti-women’s autonomy, and anti-LGBT extremist hate group, Collective Shout, was successful in getting Steam to remove hundreds of games that offended its members. It achieved that by putting pressure on…
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Over the last couple of years, payment processors such as Visa, Mastercard and PayPal have been steadily ramping up efforts to control what people can purchase. Several Japanese stores have been targeted in this way. For example, Melonbooks, a website that specialises in independently published manga, was forced to stop…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. There was some interesting news from outside of the games industry that is nonetheless of some meaningful relevance to video games for the reaction that is has provoked. The company that preserves the work of Dr. Seuss has decided that it will no longer publish six…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. It’s such an easy topic to champion in the political sphere that it can only be cynical – for those that haven’t been following Australian politics, one of our more obscure and useless senators, Stirling Griff, has decided to go on a campaign against anime and…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Just as a quick note: While this video discusses Tokyo Mirage Sessions, I don’t have any footage of that, so instead I’ve just pulled together a whole lot of fan service game footage, but that stuff is fun. The whole “censorship” debate has blown up a…
Read MoreThe big “art blockbuster” release this week is Control, from the makers of Max Payne and Alan Wake. We have a good chat about that one on this week’s podcast! We also take a look at all the big announcements from Gamescom, the “replacement E3”. And we chat through a…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. This time it’s the PQube-localised Omega Labyrinth, as is being reported by a number of outlets. This decision hasn’t been published on the Australian Classification Board’s own website, but that usually takes a few days after these decisions are made to reflect on there. The game…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. If you search on DDNet for a review of Valkyrie Drive -Bhikkhuni-, you won’t find one. The PlayStation Vita game was refused classification down here in Australia by our delightful censorship board, so none of us got to play it. Related reading: Here’s Matt’s reaction to…
Read MoreThis week on the DigitallyDownloaded.net podcast, we look at the latest game to have fallen victim to Australian censorship, Outlast 2. Then we look at eroticism in film, as the Korean film The Handmaiden, makes a big splash in arthouse cinema circles, and how that approach to filmmaking might apply…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It appears that Outlast 2 has been banned in Australia, after comments from the game’s publisher have emerged. Here’s the decision by the Australian Classification Board, as reported by Press-Start: As usual, the game’s been banned for vague reasons that basically boil down to “we didn’t…
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