Sunday, January 31, 2010

All Aboard The Censorship (part two)

December 17, 2009 by Luke K  
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The OFLC (Office of Film and Literature Classification) in Australia is stricter than most other similar bodies elsewhere in the world, but is unforgiving when it comes to video games. Incredibly, there exists no R18+ certificate for video games in Australia.

All Aboard The Censorship (part one)

December 14, 2009 by Luke K  
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The idea of human rights applying to on – screen fictional characters who are nothing more than data on a disc (or hard drive) is so ludicrous, I don’t feel the need to explain any further. I must be fair, however; the study’s main concern (ostensibly, at any rate) was that players of certain games are able to virtually commit war crimes, or other breaches of human rights.

Grumpy Gurevitz: Stupid People Lead Me To Violence!

November 23, 2009 by Steven G  
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What causes violence? If you are fan of George Lucas then you know that ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to anger, and anger to violence. I ask this as currently we are going through the yearly attack on gaming, largely caused by Modern Warfare 2; but most probably an attack which would have attached itself to another game had MW2 not been released.

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