We’ve been patiently waiting for more on Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon 4 since June. Now a listing appears on the Australian ratings board website for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Predator. Coincidence? More »
Australia’s Office of Film and Literature Classification has listed a new rating for Sonic Adventure DX: Director’s Cut, suggesting that the GameCube game might be ported to current systems. More »
Hey, Censor Watch fans. You may have noticed we’ve not posted for two Mondays now. This is the reason. So while we wait for the government to upgrade their security, please enjoy this Far Cry 2 screenshot of a man about to be stabbed.
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?
