The Australian government agency charged with classifying movies and video games has reportedly been hacked in protest of the nation's controversial ISP-level Internet filtering scheme. The culprits ...

Following Saints Row 4, State of Decay has reportedly earned the dubious honour of becoming the second game to be refused classification in Australia since the implementation of the R18+ ratings ...

For GameSpot AU's previous coverage on the R18+ issue, click here! If you're an Australian and you're a gamer, then you're probably already aware that game classification in this country has some ...

As requested by South Australian Attorney General John Rau, the Australian Classification Review Board will be reviewing the classifications of 12 video games, according to an announcement by the ...

Survival-horror game Outlast 2 was refused classification in Australia yesterday, with the Australian Classification Board saying it’s due to “a depiction of implied sexual violence.” You can read the ...

Several months ago, Compulsion Games announced that its highly anticipated dystopian survival title We Happy Few would be delayed from its original launch date of April 2018 to a new release window of ...

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"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime." -- Potter Stewart (American Judge and associate justice of the US Supreme Court (1958-81)) ...

A new ratings tool has led to more games than ever being refused classification, but advocates say this is just a fraction of the massive list of 150,000 games now classified for the first time.

An indie developer has explained why the new automated classification system for games in Australia can't come soon enough, explaining the current system makes releasing games in the country just too ...

Compulsion Games' We Happy Few is the latest video game to be denied classification in Australia. The Australian ratings board gave We Happy Few an "RC" yesterday. That stands for "refused ...