OFLC

Once again the Office of Film and Literature Classification in Australia has banned a game because of a lack of sufficient ratings. The game in question is Activision’s Soldier of Fortune: Payback, and although reasons weren’t given we presume it’s for excessive gore.

In related news the Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia has stepped up their campaign to have an R18+ rating for videogames in response to the looming federal election. The IEAA says Australia is the only developed democracy in the world without a R18+ classification for games, the result is that if a game exceeds the MA15+ rating it is banned.

via The Age

The Australian Office of Film and Literature (OFLC) have updated their classification database with some great news for Wii owners in Australia - Sin & Punishment: Successor to the Earth has been given an M rating, which can only mean one thing - it’s coming to the Virtual Console in Australia.

One can assume the game will cost the standard Nintendo 64 price of 1000 Wii Points, however there’s no such assumptions to be made with the release date. This would be a pretty neat consolation prize for Australian Wii owners to sink their teeth into while gamers in the US play Metroid Prime 3 and Super Smash Bros.