{"id":5040,"date":"2009-12-17T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"australians-may-alter-video-game-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5040-australians-may-alter-video-game-laws","title":{"rendered":"Australians may alter video game laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/26504\/Australia_Opens_R18_Debate_Invites_Public_Submissions.php\">Gamasutra report<\/a> the Australian government may be considering loosening the straps on its stringent video game rating system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As part of the process an internet portal has been set up by the government to take arguments for adding a newly proposed R18 rating to the country&rsquo;s classification system. Australian citizens have until February 28th to voice their opinions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This comes after both Left 4 Dead 2 and Alien vs. Predator were refused classification within the country due to their graphic nature &ndash; effectively resulting in an inability to release the titles in Australia. Currently the highest rating available to the film and literature classification board is 15.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the supporting arguments that have already been voiced explain that a &#8220;lack of an adult classification for computer games in Australia may affect the competitiveness of this industry internationally and could be resolved through the introduction of an adult category.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite this Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson remains against the classification adding that &#8220;only a small number of very zealous gamers&#8221; are interested in an R 18+ classification and that &#8220;you don&#8217;t need to be playing a game in which you impale, decapitate and dismember people,&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government down under may be considering an R18 age classification<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}