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The catch-up coffee: December 1, 2016

December 1, 2016
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney/catch-up coffee/Censorship/Classification Board/Genital Jousting/God Wars/God Wars: Future Past/News/Stardew Valley

News by Britta S, Matt C,  Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we will bring you the best news that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news…

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The Australian censors target the Japanese. Again

August 9, 2016
Censorship/Classification Board/MeiQ/News/Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni

Really Freaking Annoyed by Matt S.  Only a couple of weeks after the Australian Classification Board decided to get ideological and ban MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death for utterly arbitrary reasons, the puritans are at it again and have now refused classification to Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkuni. Related reading: My report on…

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We should care about censorship, even if we don’t care about the censored work

July 4, 2016
Australia/Censorship/Daily Review/MeiQ/Opinion

Opinion by Matt S. Not long ago there was the unfortunate news that a Compile Heart game had been Refused Classification in Australia, effectively banning it. Not many people seemed to complain about this. Not that many outlets even really reported on it, beyond a very flat statement-of-fact. And on…

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Australia’s hypocritical, incompetent, Classification Board strikes again, and bans another game from Japan

June 22, 2016
Australia/Censorship/Classification Board/News

News by Matt S. So, Australia’s delightful censorship bureau, the Classification Board, has struck again, and once again it has struck a tiny Japanese game that was not going to offend anyone. This time around it is Idea Factory’s MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death; that has been refused classification (the dreaded…

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Let’s have a serious discussion about localisation and games

February 26, 2016
Censorship/Fire Emblem/Fire Emblem Fates/localisation/Nintendo/Opinion

Despite the superb sales figures, the recent Fire Emblem game has been the subject of some incredibly fierce controversy. The reason for that controversy is that Nintendo, when localising the game, decided to engage in some self-censorship of the material, removing some parts of the game, and changing the dialogue,…

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Why I don’t care that Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 will not be released in the west

November 24, 2015
Censorship/Dead or Alive/Dead or Alive Xtreme/Dead or Alive Xtreme 3/Koei Tecmo/Opinion

I think I annoyed a couple of my followers on Twitter today. A lot of people forwarded on the news to me that the director of Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 has formally announced that the game would not be released in the west, citing concerns over the reception that…

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People, the IARC classification model is not going to stop censorship in Australia

July 1, 2015
Australia/Australian Government/Censorship/Classification Board/IARC/Opinion

One of the more odd things that I’ve been reading about the Australian games industry over recent months is the assumption that many seem to have that in adopting the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC), we are going to have a “fix” to Australia’s issues with classification and censorship. Related…

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apple-is-pulling-games-that-feature

June 25, 2015
Apple/Censorship/iPad/News/Ultimate General: Gettysburg

It looks like Apple is pulling any games it can find that feature the Confederate flag from its App store. But we’re not talking about racist games that heroise the flag or anything like that. We’re talking about historical wargames about the American Civil War that need to use the…

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In depth: The banning of Hotline Miami 2 and why games need to be able to offend

January 15, 2015
Censorship/Game Theory/Hotline Miami/Hotline Miami 2/Opinion

Opinion by Matt S. When the news broke that Hotline Miami 2 was to be banned from sale in Australia, I naturally assumed that there would be a general outcry in condemnation by the gaming community. After all, it was the very definition of censorship, and as offensive as the…

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UPDATE: Hotline Miami 2 banned in Australia

January 15, 2015
Censorship/Classification Board/classifications/Hotline Miami/Hotline Miami 2/Opinion

News by Matt S. It’s always good to know that the Australian Classification Board is out there protecting us from things that no human being would ever want to see. Like a knight in shining armour, the Board is out there shielding us from the evils of nasty game developers…

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