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Why Robin Makes Batman Better The website of Australia’s Classification Board has been hacked. Visitors to the site overnight were greeted with the above message.
The first DSiWare titles have been rated by our Classification Board. We don’t know when they’ll be released, but we can tell you the initial batch of games to be found on the new download service will include a maths edition of Brain Training and a bunch of magic trick tutorials. What an auspicious beginning.
Michael Atkinson has admitted he opposes an R18+ category because he doesn’t trust the Classification Board to apply the guidelines “in their plain meaning”. In a third letter to Kotaku, Atkinson outlines his case against the introduction of an R18+ category in response to Kotaku reader Terry O’Shanassy. Atkinson claims the Board will stretch the limits of an R18+ category in the same way they currently stretch the limits of the MA15+ category.
Full credit to Michael Atkinson. He not only reads Kotaku and writes to us, but he also reads all your comments as well. As we just revealed, the South Australian Attorney-General and spokesperson for the anti-R18+ brigade has written a second letter to Kotaku. In it, he addresses a host of comments left by Kotaku readers the last time he wrote to us. You’ll find his lengthy response – in full – beyond the jump.
South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson has revealed why the discussion paper on an R18+ rating has yet to be made available for public consultation, a year after it was first proposed. Atkinson says the sticking point is his demand for the inclusion of illustrations of the type of content an R18+ game would contain.
Fallout 3 had morphine in it. Got banned for it. Velvet Assassin has morphine in it. Got an MA15+ for it. So how does that work?
Not much in the way of games hitting our censors’ desks this week. The most notable being Swords & Soldiers, a WiiWare strategy game from the makers of the original PC demo of De Blob. Yep, that’s just how boring a week it was. Cool-looking game though.
On Tuesday, South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson wrote to the Adelaide Advertiser about proposed changes to our classification system. Yesterday, a Kotaku reader responded to Atkinson’s letter. And today? Atkinson has written to Kotaku to respond again… and deliver a challenge to Kotaku readers.
Yesterday, South Australian Attorney-General and R18+ opponent Michael Atkinson wrote to the Adelaide Advertiser about his favourite topic. A Kotaku reader contacted me earlier today with his own response. Read them both beyond the jump.
