Ryan Langley is a level designer at Halfbrick Studios, so he's used to putting secret rewards in hard-to-find places, but in this case he found one. He discovered that both LucasArts and BioWare have filed for a classification in the Australian government for a computer game called Paper, Scissors, Stone. Unfortunately, we have no idea what that is at all.
The classification does mention that it's related to "science fiction themes" and that the game will have "online content." When you combine that with the fact that both LucasArts and BioWare are listed on the mark (along with publisher EA), it's possible that, even despite the M rating for mature audiences, this could have something to do with the upcoming The Old Republic MMO. A standalone minigame of some kind? That's just a guess, but yes please on that.
At any rate, we'll probably hear about this one soon. In the meantime, you might want to start practicing your hand signals.
Reader Comments (12)
Posted: Nov 30th 2011 9:33PM Timjoy said
This is just a pretext to the star wars/mass effect crossover game...
Posted: Nov 30th 2011 9:36PM Jameseh said
...Lizard, Spock
Posted: Nov 30th 2011 10:13PM Jennacide said
Can you really copyright the name of a few century's old childrens game?
Posted: Nov 30th 2011 10:17PM pluupy said
This must be how Square-Enix makes their decisions.
Posted: Dec 1st 2011 12:03AM kilroy214 said
Id rather play Pazaak.
Posted: Dec 1st 2011 1:53AM Saladfork said
Oh no, Lucasarts owns my method for deciding what kind of pizza to get!
Posted: Dec 1st 2011 2:53AM blackangel209 said
@Bielzer Dynamite with a cuttable wick is actually supposed to replace paper, not scissors...
Posted: Dec 1st 2011 2:56AM JustinBoy24 said
This is just the classification for The Old Republic, Paper, Scissors, Stone is just a codename they used. They obviously wanted to submit it for classification under a codename because last I heard they were having difficulty setting up local servers in Australia, and announced that they wouldn't be launching The Old Republic in Australia just yet.
To me this just says that if or when they get servers set-up in Australia, they already have the classification for the game to undergo release in Australia.
To me this just says that if or when they get servers set-up in Australia, they already have the classification for the game to undergo release in Australia.
Posted: Dec 2nd 2011 2:39AM RogueJedi86 said
@JustinBoy24
Plus TOR's had a rating for a few months. It's rated T, so no worries about hiding a M-rating.
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Plus TOR's had a rating for a few months. It's rated T, so no worries about hiding a M-rating.
Posted: Dec 2nd 2011 5:34AM Quaxo said
@RogueJedi86 The T for Teen rating is the ESRB rating which means little outside the US. Australia has it's own rating system, in which M is the equivalent for the US's T for Teen.
G, PG, M, M15+, R18+, X18+
All except R18+ and X18+ are applicable to games. The last two are only used for films.
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G, PG, M, M15+, R18+, X18+
All except R18+ and X18+ are applicable to games. The last two are only used for films.





