So the Attorneys-General of each state and territory have met today, and Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor believes that an R18+ classification for games could arrive in a matter of months. All states have agreed in-principle, except NSW who “just need to take it back to cabinet and discuss it”. This would be fantastic news for adult gamers, freedom of choice, Australian censorship, and straight up common sense. More at [Kotaku]
Brody
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 3:38 PMabout time! i hope this won’t be delayed any longer than it has already
Matt
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 3:42 PMGreat news, lets just hope they don’t introduce too much ‘fine print’ to make the R18+ irrelevant.
Luke
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 4:10 PMThis is indeed a good day… but it seems NSW are being the stubborn pricks this time around.
But according to the article on Kotaku that the commonwealth could override NSW’s decision.
There has been more progress today then there has been in a decade.
Troy
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 4:43 PMI had a feeling this was coming. Both Gears of War 3 and Dead Island download pages on Xbox live have the Australian R rated logo on them. Glad its happening
Matt
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 4:52 PMAccording to Kotaku, it’s through, woohoo!!!!