There is a news story doing the rounds at the moment about the infamous South Australian Attorney General, Michael Atkinson, stating that gamers are scarier than bikie gangs. Apparently a gamer, or possibly 2, have slipped death threats under his door at 2am because he won’t change his stance on allowing R18+ games to be sold in Australia. Coincidentally he …

Yet another game has been banned in the nanny state called Australia and this time the developer hasn’t minced their words when they were asked if they were going to be creating a sanitised version for release in Oz. Rebellion Developments has come out and stated “We will not be releasing a sanitised or cut down version for territories where …

Well this is no surprise but I was wondering how Microsoft were going to handle this demo what with Australia’s archaic ratings board. Well the demo is now available to the rest of the Xbox Live supported regions but unfortunately if you try and add it to your queue from the online Marketplace you end up with an awesome message …

Bioshock 2 hasn’t yet been rated by the imbeciles in the land down under but I will bet my bottom dollar that it gets banned. I can say this with confidence as the British rating board has just released its rating and has rated Bioshock 2 as an 18+ title. Mainly according to the BBFC because the game “contains strong …

It hasn’t even been released yet and already Left 4 Dead 2 is one of the most controversial games of all time. From the moment it was first announced fanboys around the world have been upset stating that it should have been an expansion and now fans in Australia are about to go postal. The archaic classification system in Australia …

For those out of the loop, Australia currently doesn’t have a censorship rating for videogames over M for mature (Apologies, MA+ for mature). Which boils down to any game aimed at adults being banned down under. Some of the more famous titles that have fallen under the archaic laws of this oppressive regime are GTA IV, Fallout 3 and most …

So do you see yourself as a budding Master Chief? Want to see if you can trash a warthog in real life as badly as you did in the game? Well if you are in Sydney this weekend coming then this news is for you, the real Halo Warthog will be sitting on Cockatoo Island all weekend (8th and 9th …

As you may be aware Activision hasn’t planned on releasing a Prestige or Hardened edition for the PC version of it’s title which has obviously gotten quite a few people upset. Well, to it’s credit, EB Games Australia has stated that they are working on a way to get the PC guys those awesome night vision goggles. Nothing has been …