:EDIT: Just to make sure guys, for anyone putting forth a submission for the Classification Board, don't forget to be very carefully worded in your comments section, especially reguarding offensive language. try using a more eclectic vocabulary to really emphasize your points and make sure to be very succinct. We really want to put out best foot forward as a community, so be professional! ^^

ATTENTION! This week is a very important week for us gamers!

THe Australian Classification Board has now officially opened up the long awaited (and long overdue) disscussion papers for the fabled R18+ video game rating!

Here's is the article on Gamespot.com, they can explain it much more clearly than I. [link]

Also, more inportantly, here is the page with which to get the dicussion submission template from. The submission templates are on the right of the page. [link]


Any Australian gamers who are going to submit a template, please put down a post on the journal saying so. It's good to have support too! so anyone who is just supporting, feel free to lend your support to us too! ^^

Here's A previous journal I've posted on DA expressing my frustration on the matter.
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Also, I'd like any australian gamers and anyone who'd like to spread the word reading this to post this up on their journal! We'll need all the support we can get!
lol don't forget to credit me

Cheers everyone! Thing are lookin' up! ^^

also, fuck pandas [link]

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Whoo!! ^^

Okay, okay I've calmed down. For all of you who are wondering why I'm so excited this morning, it's because the new trailer from Rockstar Games was released for Red Dead Redemption today.! ^^

Here it is: [link]

For those of you not too into cowboys or westerns you might not get much of a kick out of it, but anyone else who's looking forward to a new, interesting open world game in the vein of Grand Theft Auto, then this is your ticket to salvation

It's being made by Rockstar Games of GTA4 fame and developed by Rockstar Dan Diego, the wizards behind Midnight Club: LA and the actual game engine, RAGE (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine), from GTA4, Midnight Club and that table tennis game.
It's been said that those games, especially GTA, have all been kind of like Beta tests for RAGE, since Red Dead has been planned since early 2005. You could say this was the game RAGE was made for, because it was.

Considering it's from Rockstar, I think I can pretty safely assume that this is going to be a pretty epic game, since they're also said in statements that because it lacks the verticallity of GTA4, the'll be able to put soo much more horizontal landscape into the game, making it the biggest map they've ever created. The voice acting in both of the trailers sounds smooth and full of quality too and the main character John Marston seems to like to talk, which is a nice, staunch contrast to classic western characters like Blondie from the Fistful of Dollars trilogy and Josey Wales, both were very hard-arsed (since they were played by Clint "I'm fucking awesome at writing, directing and acting" Eastwood) but they very seldom made more than a short quip or a solitary statement.

Also, MOTHERFUCKING COWBOYS!!!!


Okay, I'm done

C.C over and out!

[link] Watch it or else you'll get stabbed by a mythical creature!!


Listening to this: [link]

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two words: Italian Spider-man.
Now I dare you to tell me what this wouldn't be awesome, hell it looks better than the spider-man films with Tobey Maguire in them XD

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Fucking class, I can tell you now, especially when he's playing the drums

Enjoy everyone! ^^

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Okay, this has got to stop. The game rating system in Australia is fucked beyond belief, only really surpassed by Germany, but that's not the point.

The Office of Film and Literature Classification of Australia (OFLC) has today banned the sale and import of Left 4 Dead 2, one of the most anticipated games of the year and a huge pre-order game around the country.
Apparently they've Banned it for "Excessive violence and horrific acts against living humans, especially with melee weapons, which result in copious amounts of blood and gore, dismemberment and decapitation." Have they seen any of the gore flicks released in the last few years? What the fuck??
As I said before, this has gone too far. The OFLC seems to be so out of touch that they think they can just make up our minds for us and we'll just agree. This is not the case. Even though I agree that it should not be released under an MA15+ rating, since it is incredibly visceral, with tons of blood spraying everywhere and cutting people up and stuff, yet the OFLC is completely opposed to simply creating a R18+ rating for video games, they seem content to assume that nobody over the age of eighteen even looks at video games, which is absolutely not the case.

Why won't they just make an R18+ rating?
One of their arguments is that children shouldn't be allowed to view such explicitly violent content. I have to say that I completely agree with this statement, but they also seem to assume that every single parent in our wide brown land is an incredibly negligent person who just lets their five-year-old play Dead Space or Mad World. Sure there is the occasional parent who needs a child-rearing class, but lets face it, most people who decide to have kids aren't fucking around, so they're be perfectly reasonable when it comes to their children's exposure of video games. Seriously, you wouldn't take your six-year-old to see SAW 5 would you?
When it comes down to it, the average age of gamers worldwide is 31. I think if we can hold down a steady job, own a car, house and pay taxes, we should be able to decide by OURSELVES if we want to view violent, sexual, drug involving or otherwise offensive content in the media that we pay for, be it movies, books, tv or video games, without some government watchdog looking over out shoulders telling us what to do, don't you think?


I have to say, I'm almost entirely certain that the entire board is made up of grumpy, uninteresting old men, who enjoy nothing more than taking candy from babies and knocking kids off their tricycles.

For the article heard this from, click here. [link]

Oh well, that's my vent for the week
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