The Zombie Bait pack makes zombies of us all. As a safety warning, the following post contains a statue of a dismembered woman from various angles and a little bit of adult language. Continue reading »
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The Witcher 2: No Sex Please, We’re Elvish
Just in case: ***PLOT SPOILERS*** for The Witcher 2 follow. If you haven’t played this title and like action RPGs, you really should. Continue reading »
Great Moments in Game Journalism: A Stone-Throwing Contest in A Greenhouse
In the rush to blame Laurent Wainwright for destroying game “journalism” forever, there seems to be a large issue overlooked: Rob Florence could have written the entire article and not ever mention Wainwright. Or if he mentioned her, he could have said, “And here’s the kind of gaming press attitude I’m talking about, the one that can’t even see the problem”. He didn’t need to mention his suspicions and doubts based purely on a single other tweet. Continue reading »
Hypocrisy Is Where You Say One Thing and Do The Other
I was very amused recently to see that Julia Schramm, a national executive committee member of Germany’s anti-IP Pirate Party, was being slammed with criticism for releasing a book and then having her publisher go after unapproved online copies. Continue reading »
EA Thanks Australian Classification Board For Free Publicity
So EA Australia won’t appeal the Australian Classification Board’s decision to refuse classification to Syndicate, effectively removing its ability to be sold in Australia. And why would they? It’s sacrificing four or five figures worth of sales (at best) in Australia for the greater good of seven figure or higher sales in other countries. Getting … Continue reading »
R18+ Classification in Australia: When We Give, We Also Take Away
When I wrote that Australia probably wasn’t going to be seeing an R18+ classification for games soon at the end of last year, I hadn’t considered that perhaps one Attorney-General (basically: head government advisor about State / Territory law) might try to go it alone. For the rating to apply Australia-wide, all the Attorney-Generals need … Continue reading »
Mortal Kombat: Flawless PR Work, But…
Warner Brother Interactive Entertainment’s approach of “we failed the first time, but here is the same thing again but this time we’ll point out how wrong you are” around getting Mortal Kombat classified in Australia hasn’t worked, with MK being refused classification a second time. WBIE then thanked “the thousands of Mortal Kombat fans in … Continue reading »
An Open Letter To WBIE re. Mortal Kombat
Dear Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment, I have noted with interest your reactions to the recent news that Mortal Kombat has been refused classification in Australia. It probably wasn’t a surprise to you in the slightest; there was a pretty high potential for a game with slo-mo bone breaking and a focus on brutal finishing moves … Continue reading »
Why Australia Probably Won’t Get An R18+ Rating Anytime Soon
GameSpot wrote up decent opinion piece on why Australia probably won’t see the changes required to an an R18+ rating to the current video games rating system soon, but I feel they missed out on an important one: It’s not worth the political capital and cost to bring it in. Australia has a new minority … Continue reading »
Censorship, And What’s Going On Here Guyz?
A Short-ish and Curious Tale So, you’ve got Deadly Premonition, a game with a pretty patchy history – announced under one title, then disappearing for an extended period only to pop up with a new name – that launches to a pretty mixed set of reviews. It’s also a budget game, so the chance of … Continue reading »
