Yesterday afternoon a good friend of mine called me from two and a half states away (which is considerably far for an Australian) to ask me in frenzied confusion what exactly was going on with a game sequel that had been banned, of which he had never actually played the ancestor title, to which he felt quite aggrieved as he was looking forward to a near future date where he might experience said game at last. He wanted to know what was going on, as the notion of potentially awesome games being kept outside of his reach had gotten him into a lather nonetheless.

I explained to him that the game in question had been refused classification by the OFLC due to specific content being deemed ‘unratable’. Read the rest of this entry »