With Call Of Duty: Ghosts, the Australian Classifications Board again lets down the Australian public

Opinion by Matt S. 

The Australian Classifications Board has seen fit to give Call of Duty: Ghosts, a MA15+ rating. This is the second-highest classification available in Australia and is intended to bar children under the age of 15 from playing the game under any capacity.

But it isn't the R18+ rating, and it's yet the latest in a long string of hopelessly inconsistent ratings decisions by the Board that mean that the ratings don't actually mean anything to the people they're there to advise: principally, the parents.

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Australia's gaming demographics and the problem of violence

Opinion by Matt S. 

Yesterday, Australian industry body, iGEA, and Bond University, released the Digital Australia 2014 report. This report has been an annual release since 2005, and charts the demographics of people that play games within Australia, as well as their attitude towards games.

The full report can be found here, and it's worth a look if you're interested in statistics and the like; the author of the report, Dr. Jeff Brand, claimed that the demographics in Australia are similar to those throughout the world.

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