{"id":3610,"date":"2012-02-15T21:19:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T10:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2012-02-15T21:19:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T10:19:20","slug":"r18-classification-for-video-games-nearly-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/r18-classification-for-video-games-nearly-there\/","title":{"rendered":"R18+ Classification for Video Games &#8211; Nearly There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been <a title=\"Australian government says yes to R18+ video games bill | news.com.au\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/gaming\/ban-lifted-it-only-took-10-years-but-government-gives-r18-video-games-the-go-ahead\/story-e6frfrt9-1226271652456\" target=\"_blank\">in the news today but I thought this topic<\/a> was worth mentioning. I&#8217;ve also written about this in the past, specifically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"R18+ Video Games \u2013 One Step Closer | Boydo's Tech Talk\" href=\"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/r18-video-games-one-step-closer\/\" target=\"_blank\">R18+ Video Games \u2013 One Step Closer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"R18+ Computer Games Classification \u2013 Its Time Will Come | Boydo's Tech Talk\" href=\"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/r18-computer-games-classification-its-time-will-come\/\" target=\"_blank\">R18+ Computer Games Classification \u2013 Its Time Will Come<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Draft R18+ Guidelines for Computer Games Released | Boydo's Tech Talk\" href=\"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/draft-r18-guidelines-for-computer-games-released\/\" target=\"_blank\">Draft R18+ Guidelines for Computer Games Released<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, a bill was introduced into Federal Parliament to create a new R18+ category for video games. This classification has existed for films for quite some time but games that exceeded the MA15+ category were refused classification and became unsuitable for sale in Australia. Such examples include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Left 4 Dead 2 (which was later modified and granted the MA15+ classification),<\/li>\n<li>Mortal Kombat 9 (refused classification and banned from sale).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this bill manages to get through Parliament unscathed then we can expect this classification to take effect from January 2013. This would also be a victory for common sense in my eyes in amongst the\u00a0malarkey\u00a0going on in Australian politics at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that we should remember is the fact that these classification is designed to prevent minors from gaining access to R18+ content from retail channels. Such a rating in addition to the other ratings can be helpful to adults to assess and determine the suitability of content for their kids while allowing gaming adults to access such content if they so desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been in the news today but I thought this topic was worth mentioning. I&#8217;ve also written about this in the past, specifically: R18+ Video Games \u2013 One Step Closer R18+ Computer Games Classification \u2013 Its Time Will Come Draft R18+ Guidelines for Computer Games Released Today, a bill was introduced into Federal Parliament to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/r18-classification-for-video-games-nearly-there\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,40,69],"tags":[241,2243,39,31,1835,75],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-literature-classification","category-gaming","category-legal","tag-classifications","tag-gaming","tag-left-4-dead-2","tag-ma15","tag-mortal-kombat-9","tag-r18plus","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}