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New Call of Duty WaW Map Pack blocked in SA

By Gavin Mannion
June 12, 2009
in :  Gaming
3

Unfortunately it’s bad news for locals once again, the new Call of Duty World at War map packs are being blocked locally once again. If you were wondering why then it is simply because they are for a game that depicts Nazi’s and as such the gentle German minds can’t handle it. Thus their government has layed down the ban …

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Australia bans yet another game – can’t handle real blood spurts

By Gavin Mannion
April 16, 2009
in :  Gaming
6

Australia’s archaic censorship laws have struck again, this time the unwitting victim is Necrovision, a bizarre WWII shooter which according to the Australian censorship board is just that little bit to scary for the weak minded Australians. I wonder if the board actually realises that everytime they ban a M rated videogame the world laughs at them and their countries …

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Things to ban instead of Videogames

By Gavin Mannion
February 23, 2009
in :  Gaming
0

Jim Sterling over at Destructoid has been doing a bit of investigative journalism and has come up with a list of things that we could ban instead of videogames if we worked on death tolls alone. To stack the deck against video gaming he has also counted every single death that could possibly be linked to video gaming in any …

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I take it back – Madworld sounds awesome

By Gavin Mannion
January 28, 2009
in :  Gaming
2

I posted a little while back about Madworld getting it’s Australian badge of approval which I felt may be the death knoll for this title. Australia is famously conservative when it comes to it’s video games and I fully expected Madworld to get banned. However I have just finished reading through CVG’s preview of the game and from what they …

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Mad World isn’t going to be released in the Nanny States

By Gavin Mannion
October 6, 2008
in :  Gaming
3

PlatinumGames, the developers of Mad World, have stated that at the moment there aren’t any plans to release Mad World in any of the censorship heavy countries like Germany, Australia or Japan… I didn’t even know Japan was censorship heavy. Honestly I don’t blame them at all, they have an art style and plan for their game and I see …

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