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July 3, 2014
Australia/classifications/EB Games/Opinion/R18

Opinion by Matt S.  Today I was shopping at my local EB Games store, and the customer in front of me was a grandfather, who was obviously buying a game for his grandson, who was standing with him at the counter, and was at most 14 years old. The game…

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Atelier Rorona Plus rated R18+ in Australia; I am angry

May 11, 2014
Atelier Rorona/Atelier Rorona Plus/Australian Government/Classification Board/News/Opinion/R18/Tecmo Koei

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…

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Devil’s advocate: gamers still need to work to earn the right to mature games

June 27, 2013
Censorship/Classification Board/devil's adovcate/Opinion/R18/Saints Row IV

Over 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…

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March 7, 2013
Ninja Gaiden/Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus 2/R18/WTF

UPDATE: Sony has contacted us with the following statement: “Please note, this was an online store listing error. This has been fixed immediately and the classification mark for the title is R18+.” In yet another example of the breathtaking stupidity of Australia’s new R18+ age classification, the first game to score…

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February 28, 2013
Censorship/Kotaku/Mark Serrels/Opinion/R18

Australia’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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February 26, 2013
Atelier Totori Plus/Australia/classifications/Opinion/R18

Today’s nasty little surprise that a near-innocent JRPG has been slapped with an R18+ rating by the Australian Classification Board is further proof that Australia is in many ways the poster-boy of western hypocrisy with regards to sex and violence. I’ve written about this topic in the past and that…

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The Australian Classification Board has been overrun by lunatics giving R18+ ratings like it’s free candy

February 26, 2013
age rating/Atelier Totori Plus/Australia/classifications/R18

Like most other Australians I cheered a little bit (ok, a lot) when Australia finally emerged from the media dark ages and realised that sometimes, just sometimes, adults like to play games too. By that I mean we have finally got the R18+ rating. Games can finally be classified as…

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Australia to finally get an R18+ rating… hopefully

February 15, 2012
Australia/Government/Hooray/Mortal Kombat/R18/Syndicate

It looks like Australia is finally going to grow up and join the rest of the world, with the Australian Government introducing a bill to parliament to introduce a R18+ age category for video games. Previously the maximum age rating for a video game was MA15+, meaning that any game…

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Australia to finally get an R18+ rating… hopefully

February 15, 2012
Australia/Government/Hooray/Mortal Kombat/R18/Syndicate

It looks like Australia is finally going to grow up and join the rest of the world, with the Australian Government introducing a bill to parliament to introduce a R18+ age category for video games. Previously the maximum age rating for a video game was MA15+, meaning that any game…

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