Australian Fallout 3 Ban Lifted: Now with Less Psychedelics
by Justin Arnold on August 12, 2008
The Australian government has reversed a ban on the forthcoming Fallout 3 due to gamer objections.
The Office of Film and Literature Classification originally had banned Fallout 3 due to its in-game drug use, rendering the game illegal for sale in Australia. Read more…
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Pedophile Uses World of WarCraft to Meet Girls
by Dan Landis on June 30, 2008
An Australian man was arrested recently after he convinced a 15-year-old girl he met while playing World of WarCraft to run away from home to be with him. He even paid for the trip. How sweet. Read more…
Championship Gaming Series Announces 2008 Schedule of Events
by Beau Rosser on May 23, 2008
Attention all gamers! Fill your mugs up with game fuel and strap on your fingerless gloves, because the 2008 Championship Gaming Series (CGS) dates have been announced for the North American Season and World Final. Read more…
PS3 GTAIV Pre-Orders Outnumber 360 Down Under
by Tom Hillman on April 25, 2008
Debra McGrath of EB Games Australia, the largest games retailer in the country, has recently announced that the PS3 version of Grand Theft Auto 4 is just ahead of the Xbox 360 version in terms of pre-sales. Read more…
D3 Had a Baby and Its Head Popped Off (AKA Ripten’s Review of Dark Sector)
by Dan Landis on April 13, 2008
After a solid two weeks with Dark Sector, I feel fully qualified to make this statement with absolute certainty: I played Dark Sector. That’s honestly as objective as I can be, but if you want to know my true feelings of the game, please continue. Read more…
Australia Getting a Tamer GTA Experience
by Dylan Duarte on April 4, 2008
It seems that Australia is all up in arms as of late over video game ratings and Rockstar has taken this as a reason to cut some mature material from the latest Grand Theft Auto title. Read more…
Hands-On with Dark Sector Multiplayer (Bonus Official Screenshot Gallery!)
by Dan Landis on February 26, 2008
During GDC, the Ripten crew was privy to an exclusive invite-only shindig presented by the good people at D3Publishing. What did we do? Well, we sat down in front of some system-linked Xbox 360s and proceeded to tear the shit out of each other in a few rounds of Digital Extremes’ new game, Dark Sector. Read more…
