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Welcome to Ausfailia (IFHTC! Part 4)

Posted by Lynk Former on 27 June 2009 at 11:24 PM (GMT+10)

Here we are again for another edition of “I fucking hate this country”… it’s getting tiring having to write these entries up, I don’t particularly enjoy it, but whenever I hear about some of that asshattery this country gets up to, So where are we now?

Well right now I’m wondering if it will ever get to the stage where the Australian government succeeds in its efforts to close off the country to anything they may find objectionable that they end up blocking my access to my own web site… sounds crazy, I know, but then trying to filter the Internet is some crazy stuff to begin with.

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Sega does what Nintendon’t

Posted by Lynk Former on 11 March 2009 at 4:16 PM (GMT+10)

Back in the early 90s when the great Genesis/Mega Drive VS SNES war had erupted, Sega released a very interesting advertising campaign against Nintendo with the slogan “GENESIS DOES WHAT NINTENDON’T“… It’s been a long time since Sega was actually in the video game hardware business, but it seems that they haven’t lost their touch, even when it comes to sticking it to Nintendo on their own console.

Some interesting things have been going on in recent months on the Wii. While Nintendo hasn’t been doing very much of anything other than a Wii version of Animal Crossing, Sega has taken the opportunity to invest in a whole bunch of interesting games, three of which are focused very much on the more traditionalist core gamer. Sega is out to impress, Nintendo is worryingly quiet and Capcom… well, Capcom is confusing the hell out of me with whatever it is they think they’re doing on Wii.

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I… This country confuses me! (IFHTC! Part 3)

Posted by Lynk Former on 14 January 2009 at 8:47 PM (GMT+10)

I’ve had two blog entries before this where I’ve ranted about how stupid my country, Australia, can be when it comes to rating video game content. It all stems from the fact that while we have an R18+ rating for movies, the government hasn’t allowed the use of that rating for video games… and to make it worse, there are certain individuals in the government who are extremely adamant that there should NEVER be an R18+ rating for video games.

Quite a few games were effected by the lack of an R18+ rating down here in 2008, and to top it off, the reasoning for some of these games being banned from being sold in Australia are downright confusing… especially when some of these games that were originally refused classification have now been rated MA15+ with little to no change at all.

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