{"id":278,"date":"2010-03-22T15:06:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T04:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/?p=278"},"modified":"2010-04-03T09:14:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:14:48","slug":"r18-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"R18+ Video game rating&#8230; Great news!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/users.on.net\/~dmccann\/images\/SouthParkWoWLoser.jpg\" alt=\"South Park - Make Love Not Warcraft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An R18+ video games rating\/classification is a step closer to being introduced in Australia, following the resignation of South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson, the only AG against it.<\/p>\n<p>This is excellent news! No more <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_banned_video_games#Australia\">banned games<\/a>, no more games with disturbing\/violent content getting into the hands of kids, many games rated R18+ overseas got a MA15+ rating here. No more modified games, where the developers had to modify content in order to get the current maximum MA15+ rating to allow it for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Australia is currently one of the few advanced countries in the world without the R18+ rating\/classification for video games.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/atkinson-quits-as-south-australian-attorney-general\/story-e6frfro0-1225843655743\">more<\/a> on www.news.com.au.<\/p>\n<p>*UPDATE* : New Attorney-General supports R18+ game rating! Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/digital-life\/games\/new-attorneygeneral-supports-r18-game-rating-20100325-qxip.html\">more<\/a> on www.smh.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An R18+ video games rating\/classification is a step closer to being introduced in Australia, following the resignation of South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson, the only AG against it. This is excellent news! No more banned games, no more games with disturbing\/violent content getting into the hands of kids, many games rated R18+ overseas got a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}