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Australia EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Aussie game banner: Real-life issues more important 52 Evil Attorney General Michael Atkinson is the man solely responsible for Australia having to pay more for less content. He is the man standing in the way of his country joining the real world and... Get a replica gun with Bayonetta in Australia 23 Earlier today, we told you about the limited edition version of Bayonetta that would be hitting the UK, Spain, France and Australia. Of the four territories, it looks like Australia will be ... Atkinson: Games give you points for raping mothers 61 South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson is the single man responsible for Australia's backwards rating system in which videogames deemed unsuitable for fifteen-year-olds is banned or c... Left 4 Dead 2: Censored edition 60 As we all know by now, Valve has had to edit Left 4 Dead 2 because Australia's rating system is demented and won't allow any game deemed unfit for fifteen-year-olds. Unfortunately, this means th... Predictable: Modern Warfare 2 footage upsets people 65 It didn't take long. Modern Warfare 2's controversial footage showing civilians gunned down in an airport was confirmed only yesterday, and already people have decided to get offended and upset. ... Aussie Steam version of Borderlands censored, 2K fixing 8 Even though the Australian Steam release version of Borderlands isn’t slated to hit until October 30th, Internet-wise Aussies have been getting their digital copies of the imaginative RPS e... Australia wants to rate iPhone games 29 As it stands, iPhone App games have gone unrated, with developers able to submit their games for Apple's approval and nobody else's. In Australia, where the ratings board has an iron grip on vide... Valve loses appeal against Left 4 Dead 2 Aussie ban 62 Valve has been appealing a decision by the Australian rating board to refuse an MA15+ classification for Left 4 Dead 2, effectively banning the zombie sequel in the country. Valve has a heavily c... Sony flings a PS3 at an LCD TV, films it for giggles 58 After far too many hours of playing Demon's Souls, I know what it's like to want to throw a PS3 at my television, but Sony Australia has actually gone and done it. As part of a big new giveaway ... PSPgo failing hard in Australia 32 Australia is a land where games are late and cost twice as much, so it's hardly surprising that the over-expensive PSPgo isn't doing so well over there. A number of Australian retailers have even... Uncharted 2 PS3 bundles coming to a few territories 8 Sony is offering a copy of Uncharted 2 with every purchase of a new 250GB PlayStation 3 slim over in Australia and New Zealand. The deal started this week and will last until January 31, 2010. A ... Left 4 Dead 2 confirmed for Australia, heavily edited 40 So, as we all know by know, Australia banned Left 4 Dead 2 because the OFLC rating board is tied to archaic and outdated regulations. Australian fans will be pleased to know that L4D2 has now bee... Valve submits edited L4D2 to Aussie Classification Board 41 Valve won’t quit on Left 4 Dead 2 in Australia, despite the title having been rejected by the Australian Classification Board. According to Valve head honcho Gabe Newell, the studio has sub... Australian ratings turn 'middle class into criminals' 32 We all know by now that Australia is severely lagging behind the times thanks to its archaic rating system that refuses to rate games intended for audiences of eighteen and over. 15+ is the highe... EA responds to Left 4 Dead 2 Australia ban with ownage 37 Australia failed to shock the world recently by refusing to classify Left 4 Dead 2, making it the latest game to be banned by the country's pathetic rating system. Publisher Electronic Arts has r... Rumortoid: Aussie's largest retailer shunning PSPgo 41 There has been a lot of talk lately about offended retailers refusing to stock the all-digital PSPgo. Feeling burned by the lack of ability to sell games for the new system, a few large stores in... Left 4 Dead 2 banned in Australia 56 Yet another videogame falls victim to Australia's backwards and broken rating system. If you live in Australia and decided to be part of the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott, your job has just been made eas... Help fly Gabe Newell to Australia 31 Why does Gabe Newell need to go to Australia? Need is probably too strong a word, but Joe, a Left 4 Dead campaign creator, wants him and Erik Johnson to fly to Brisbane to check out his campaign.... Risen banned in Australia because Australia likes banning 48 Australia's prehistoric and out-of-touch rating system has claimed another videogame's life, with the Australian rating board refusing to classify the upcoming Deep Silver-published RPG Risen. Th... Scribblenauts was already win, but this makes it winnier 36 Australia rocks. I know, I've been there. It's a very cool place with good people. The games are too expensive, but the world is about to make up for that because Australia is the only place conf... MS believes Avatars are more popular than Gears of War 2? 23 According to Xbox Australia, NXE Avatars are ranking amongst the country's most popular wastes of time. Being "played" more than likes of Gears of War 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV, the Ava... Australia is also banning Second Life 72 Australia's censorship crusade continues! Yesterday, we talked about how the Australian government was about to start censoring the Internet, and today we find out that Second Life is also about ... Australia censoring the Internet, blocking out M-rated games 55 The Australian Government has officially gone drunk with power. Not content to heavily butcher and/or outright ban videogames that don't conform to their horribly outdated MA15+ age rating cap, t... WiiWare title Sexy Poker deemed too sexy for Australia 12 Gameloft's upcoming Sexy Poker is basically strip poker in a videogame -- removal of female clothing as bets instead of money. But gamers in Australia will never see the game's girl's down unders... Videogame biz 'in denial' over game addiction, allegedly 59 Australia's largest daily paper, the Herald-Sun, has written a charmingly alarming piece that accuses the games industry of being "in denial" over the very real and very serious threat ... Raskulls announced for XBLA, looks adorable 12 Australian developer Halfbrick has today announced Raskulls, a brand new platforming puzzle game for XBLA. Promising to follow up on the success of previous sidescrolling games like Braid and Cas... Australian rating board site hacked and humiliated 19 As we all know by now, it's not much fun being an Australian gamer. Your games are delayed, your prices are high, and to top it all off, you have a ratings board that constantly bans and/or force... Australia Killzone 2 bundle hitting February 26 9 Hey Australia. How are you? My dream has always been to move to you. I realize it will cost loads of money and I’ll have to leave my mattress at home, but there’s something about your... Kid's Age of Empires obsession causes him to take up archery 18 These are the stories you don't hear the Jack Thompsons of the world talking about. A child was so keen on PC strategy game Age of Empires that, when his mother demanded he do something more acti... F.E.A.R 2 banning overturned in Australia 14 Political stupidity gets a slap in the face today as the decision to ban F.E.A.R 2 in Australia has been overturned. Thanks to the country's lack of an 18+ age restriction, Australia's rating boa... Animal Crossing Wii character imports region locked: Because that's not dumb 21 Nintendo's hard-on for region locking anything it can has just got a little more ridiculous, if one Australian gamer's troubles are anything to go by. According to an Aussie NeoGAF user, imports ... PC version of GTA IV unedited in Australia 16 Grand Theft Auto IV, like most videogames in Australia, received edits in order to get its MA15+ rating from the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification. However, in a rare case o... Utterly pathetic: Australia denies 18+ rating, will continue to ban games 33 This is just sad, sad garbage. Australia is to remain the only developed nation in the world without an 18+ age rating after proposals to lift the MA15+ cap have been soundly rejected by South Au... Oh, MMO players: World of Warcraft fan stabs friend in PC volume argument 27 It would almost be worth making a regular feature on the kinds of crazy antics that MMO players get up to. I don't want to generalize, because there are a lot of sane MMO fans out there. So, whil... Utterly pathetic: Australia bans Silent Hill: Homecoming 49 Christ on a ferris wheel, there is something deeply wrong with Australia. Those defenders of Aussie innocence, the OFLC, have refused to rate Silent Hill: Homecoming, effectively banning the vide... Rock Band finally comes to Australia 13 You know how Rock Band 2 is your new favorite thing to play, and how much fun it is to invite friends over and rock out to all the new songs? Let me present an alternate scenario -- imagine if yo... Film maker and game developer argue over tax breaks 9 While the film industry enjoys tax incentives, the games industry rarely finds itself on the receiving end of such benefits, despite being a huge part of economies all over the world. In Australi... PlayStation Portable: The great corporate motivator 26 In all the places I've worked (barring Destructoid, of course,) the great motivating corporate line was "do this or you're fired." I can't say I've ever been given reason enough to give... Rumortoid: Rock Band may never hit Australia 27 Australian gamers don't have it easy. With a pathetic government approach to game ratings, constantly gimped products and insulting prices, it's little wonder that importing is a hot commodity in... Australian politician is an avid gamer: Oxymoron a-go-go! 8 Destructoid's readers should be well aware of Australia's bullsh*t regarding its treatment of videogames and its government's frightened, ass-backwards approach to age restrictions. One finds it ... Thieves steal a Make-A-Wish recipient's PS3 56 14-year-old Zak Touilii had only one great passion left in his life, the PS3 and the games given to him by the Make-A-Wish foundation. Last week, thieves broke into Zak’s Wollongong residen... Captain Quasi-Obvious: Prototype edited for Australia ... and Germany 14 In what looks like the beginnings of a worrying trend, Radical Entertainment has said it is working hard to make sure Prototype is released in those countries currently not open-minded enough to ... Australia strikes back: GTA IV pre-orders canceled, imports inevitable 51 As we have stated many times by now, life sucks when you're an Australian gamer. Overcharged, underappreciated and barred from legally purchasing a variety of titles, the Australians don't have i... Captain Obvious: GTA IV censored in Australia 51 Regular readers will know that for all the problems the US and Europe put up with in terms of the anti-games agenda, things could be worse -- we could all live in Australia. Community member Bool... Christians and Pornographers team up to fight the violent video game menace 39 It's a beautiful thing when two disparate groups can set aside their differences to come together in a joyous union resulting in a deeper understanding of one another's viewpoints.  That is,... Shock of the week: Australia bans Dark Sector 57 Every time I think that Europe has it bad when it comes to videogames, along comes Australia to display the might of its indescribable stupidity. Australia's ratings board has no adult rating for... Nintendo finally does the smart thing: Improving release dates outside Japan 25 I've made no secret of my bitter distaste when it comes to the ridiculous, insulting and totally unnecessary release dates that we have to put up with from Nintendo in Europe. Having to wait over... Soldier of Fortune: Payback no longer banned in Australia, loses 'best part' 14 When Soldier of Fortune: Payback was refused classification by Australia's Office of Film & Literature Classification, people were up in arms. Upon thinking on the subject further, OZ residen... Try out FURY for free and play as FHM's girl next door Siobhan Parekh 17 Auran studios is giving you the opportunity to play their game for free for the next ten days. You can download the free trial of the game at their site. There have also been some big improvement... Irrational Games renamed -- say hello to 2K Boston and 2K Australia 9 In a move that single-handedly eclipsed all of the creative achievements of the past decade or so, Irrational Games, a subsidiary of 2K Games, has been renamed. Irrational's offices in Boston and... SEGA goes down under, sets up shop in Australia 12 G'day, Mate! Pop open a Fosters, throw a couple of shrimp on the barbecue, and smack your kangaroo on the ass, because SEGA has now opened an Australian office. Sorry, those were terrible st...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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