Risen banned in Australia for incentivizing sex and drugs

Man, Australia's run by a bunch of pussies. Like 15 year olds don't already know about drugs and sex.

Well, f*** you too, Australia.

If there is one thing flight of the conchords has taught me it is that Australia is full of jerks.

What's it going to take to get the equivalent of an M rating for games in Australia? I've been hearing about things like this for years and everyone always mentions that Australia's rating system only goes up to age 15 but I'm curious if anybody is actually trying to do something about it.

I know nothing of how the Australian government works but it seems like there's gotta be enough gamers in Australia and enough data about the average age of gamers and what not that if you could just get the idea of an M rating in front of a decision maker they'd pretty much have to add one, right?

I find this offensive. Sex is its own reward.

I like to imagine Australia as eventually becoming a kind of "Fahrenheit 451" kind of thing, but for video games. Merciless authority cracking down on smuggled copies of Crackdown, etc.

Was Fable banned too?

Haha, you really told the Xbox360 game Fable a thing or two! ................... lol

If they don't have sex in Australia, THEN WHERE THE HELL DID YVONNE STRAHOVSKI COME FROM?!

"...sexual activity and drug use related to incentives or rewards."

Wait, does Australia censor half of television programming as well?

Funny, this coming from an island that was once populated with prisoners.

Funny how things change.

SIEG HEIL MEIN KANGAROO FURHER!

Not to be a dick, but aren't sex and drugs their own incentives?

Actually, Australia's game rating system has "MA 15+" as its highest category - this maxes out to age *17* as the next-highest ratings category is "R", which covers 18 and up. So the current Australian system actually rates games to a ceiling age of 17 years, 11 months and 30-odd days. :-)

Yes, it's pretty insipid that there's still a prevailing assumption amongst some Australian legislators that video games are for kids - but let's also remember that it's only the Attorney-General of South Australia that's holding up the process. And as he's an elected member of parliament, it's not like he'll be in the job forever...

Oh, and "sting" -- Australian free-to-air TV has approximately 13 channels these days, including networks that happily show movies featuring violence, full-frontal nudity, coarse-language and what-not... plenty of which wouldn't get a look-in on their U.S. equivalents. The reason that Australians are pretty peeved about the video games rating issue is that it's in *exception* to the system in place for movies and television.

I doubt this game would have sold a lot anyway. Looks an awful lot like Two Worlds imo, however I'm hopefully optimistic because it actually sounds really good, guess we just gotta wait

dunno if anyone has seen this weeks EpicBattleCry, they talk abit about australia and the potential ban on all violent games in germany

If that guy was hitting Indians rather than gremlins, they wouldn't have a problem with it.

Please, as an Australian...can we do anything about this malarki. It's getting ridiculous.

Totally, cause once you have lots of money you can be like Donald Trump and hire escorts.

People always talk about how Australians are so tough and macho, so it's kind of funny to read articles like this that makes them (or, to be more precise, their games rating board) look like a bunch of wussies.

You all blow.