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  • GTA Chinatown Wars Rated MA15+ In Australia

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    That sound you can hear right now is the sigh of relief emanating from Rockstar’s Sydney office. Gamespot AU is reporting that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars – the first GTA game to appear on DS – has escaped the Classification Board’s banhammer and snagged itself an MA15+ rating. Crucially, Rockstar has confirmed that no…

  • Censor Watch

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    We like to keep an eye on what games are being classified by our censors at the Office of Film & Literature Classification Classification Board. Sometimes you’ll see games on there that haven’t been announced; sometimes you’ll see games get banned refused classification. So every week we’re going to run down the latest batch of…

  • Australia’s first R18+ video game! Oh, they did wha… ?

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    Amazing news from tipster Josh, who picked up a copy of The Witcher Enhanced Edition and was overjoyed to discover it was actually Australia’s first R18+ videogame! Or… maybe it was just a very unfortunate printing error? Has Atkinson changed his position yet? No? OK. UPDATE: Commenter ‘philomglol’ points out this is probably the rating…