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Michael Atkinson: Gamers are criminals

Every gamer’s “favourite” politician Michael Atkinson thinks that gamers are criminals, with him having made the following comment about the Gamers4Croydon challenge to him in his own electorate in the upcoming South Australian election:

“I assume the Gamers4Croydon campaign will involve criminal activities and dirty tricks, which is what I’ve come to expect from gamers..”

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R18+: Have your say

Today the Attorney-General’s department has finally released the public consultation paper for the issue of an R18+ rating for computer games.  So if you’d like to have your say and submit your thoughts there is a really easy method to do so.

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Michael Atkinson defends lack of R18+ gaming classification

Kotaku have an article up with excerpts from a letter from South Australia’s Attorney-General Michael Atkinson.  The letter is in response to a gamer concerned with our lack of an R18+ classification for computer games and provides Atkinson’s view in quite a lot of detail.  The full letter (scanned PDF) is available here.  Watch out for Evony ads.

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