Ubisoft has moved the release date for Dark Messiah of Might & Magic: Elements, moving it back a few weeks to 7th December.
Ubisoft also said it would be joined at launch by the Wii version of Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, the excellent World War II shooter from Gearbox Software. Pop over to our original Xbox review to find out why we've got our eye on it.
Miles Messenger of The Married Gamers takes a look at the hidden gems found in the quest for achievements. Games that actually turn out to be surprisingly fun despite bad rating scores.
XboxOZ360 writes an extensive article about the ludicrous state of gaming censorship in Australia. Starting with the recent drama around Fallout 3 and a government funded TV show where one elected official compared games to "snuff films" and "rape" simulators, it then proceeds to look at the issue in depth and the contradictions that flourish when comparing Australia's system to that of the United States and Europe.
"When shown the game in its Australian sleeve and asked if they would buy it for their child, most said yeah, probably, it's only MA15+ after all, it's really for kids anyway. Might be a bit violent, but if it was bad, they would ban it.
Then when shown the same game sleeve from the UK, most denied it was the same until shown the disc with the same content on it, same packaging, same instruction booklet etc, except with a clear, big red 18+ marked on the cover, spine, and on the game disc..."
Does anybody know when our silly country is having the formal debate of the issue? Or was it a consensus? Whatever it was, date? Month? Year? :<
Actually, after speaking earlier on with Ron Curry, he has stated that all states can use the R18+ if they so choose, much like Qld currently do with some of their ratings, not allowing some in their state that are readily available in others.
He said that IF the industry wanted to, they could run their games in the R18+ classification in all states bar South Australia, but they would have to weigh up the financial risk against sales in that region. If it was marginal, then some would take the risk, based on more sales for a game that was well sought after being readily available in all other states.
He said that is one option that the OFLC has, and is already applying to Qld in some cases. So a precedent has already been set in that regard.
If it's not fuel, health, transport or grocery related, then the Government really doesn't give a crap...
Interesting panel debate..... I was unaware that we didn't have any rating system for games /end sarcasm/
When some of the people representing us in politics don't even know the basics of our archaic
classification system I doesn't give me much hope.
Pretty poor showing for our government really. What the heck was Barnaby Joyce going on about with a game where you can rape people? Sounded like he was talking out of his ass.
Drakol at The Bitbag reports that save data for this title may be causing Xbox 360s to freeze regardless of which game is in the console.
"My 360 console froze within a couple of hours, I reset the console. It froze again, but within minutes. Reset. That's all I did for ten minutes. I placed another game inside, but that also froze. The discs were clean, the console was almost new."