Today is the day, after a massive amount of campaigning, elections, public consultations and a resigned South Australian Attorney General today is the day the standing committee of Attorney Generals meet once again to discuss the inclusion of an R18+ rating for video games. Unfortunately this is a bitter-sweet moment as while we always knew the sheer amount of responses to the public consultation and a 89,000 signature petition (largest in Australian History) would delay the vote on an R18+ classification the Northern Territory Attorney General will not be attending this meeting making a vote impossible.
However the good news is what we do know is that from this meeting we will get an update of the status of the public consultation and when we can expect the report to be out. This report should be expected to be released very soon as this time it doesn’t have a single Attorney General blocking it’s release.
In other R18+ news, Frank Gibeau the President of EA Games has come out calling the lack of an R18+ classification of video games by the Australian Government a form of censorship. He also talks about the possible financial consequences of a government that designs policies hostile to game developers.
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