This is very Australian specific but still worth checking out to see how broken our rating system is…
SO recently Fallout 3 has been denied rating due to drug use, there has since been a major backlash from Australian gamers. This following the recent GTA 4 censorship is another painful stab in our already tender bellies [...]

Perhaps an older convention but still stupid non the less. INSTALLER MUSIC. Music that plays as the game is installing. WHY?! So we can sit and watch the bar go to 100? The thing that gets me, is that you can never turn it off. I’m the type of guy who constantly has internet videos [...]

Me says:
I think I love nothing more than making a good looking game
run smooth on my computer, I get so like, relieved and happy
Friend says:
I’m sure that this is an anxiety born entirely of our modern age
I think Friend issued me some stone cold e-wisdom. That is the issue with PC gaming for me, [...]

Welcome to the world of Gutkill Bloodbleeders! The lord and blood mayor Master Mamedisemboweler has called forth all licensed Murderslayers to fight back the ancient bloody evil tainting the lands, the Glud Blutters!!!
Or so I assume as I never actually got into the gory Bloodymare open beta. Read that again, I couldn’t actually play the [...]

To: 2K Games
From: Concerned Mums
Dear Mr 2000 Games, I was writing you this email to show my utter disgust and upmost fear towards one of your television video games that my son has been playing. The vile video game in question is your ‘Grand Thief Autos number 4’. After watching my son Rodney play I [...]

The video game industry is lacking characters. People with charisma, intensity and big ol’ brass ones.
Sure we have our “Make those marines twice as big and thrice as oily!” Cliffy Bs, our “I gotta go home early today, so cut half the features.” Peter Molyneuxs and our “Put faces on EVERYTHING!!!” Miyamotos but I [...]

ARGHGGHHHHHH!H!!!!!!
http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives//009125.html
A Rockstar spokesperson confirmed to Screen Play yesterday that the company had produced a special version of GTA IV to comply with the Australian classification system, which does not currently contain an R18+ rating, but declined to reveal what material had been cut.
The game has been rated R18+ by the British Board of Film Classification, [...]

The situation has gotten way out of hand.
No I’m not talking about wii friend codes, no it’s not to do with the core xbox skew or the fact that when I asked a guy at my local EB when Halo 3 was coming out back in the day he asked ‘Is that for playstation?’
NO. It’s [...]