As most of us already know, Australia is still one of the few countries in the world without a R18+ rating for video games. As a result, many games have been banned including last year’s Mortal Kombat game. A bill to rectify this annoying problem will be put before the Australian Government in February.
As Gamespot AU reports, Federal Minister for Home Affairs Jason Clare plans to “introduce the R18+ for games bill in the first session of this year’s parliamentary sittings, due to commence on February 7″.
Before the bill can be passed, it will have to make its way through both houses. Australian gamers better hope the bill passes later this year or else they will suffer more games getting banned in the country…
It’s weird though considering films have an R18+ rating in Australia. This is not the case in New Zealand where both films and games are classified under the same rating system.
