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I think the most important factor of this news needs to be summed by refering to this statement: Previously the highest rating available to the computer games classification board was the MA15+ rating, which meant that either computer games that would otherwise be deemed adult-only where either banned or given the MA15+ rating allowing children to obtain them.

This is such a misleading statement. no R-deserving game was ever given an MA classification, as we know, games like L4D2 were simply massively censored. More to the point, it meant that some games could be left in limbo. Rather than gaining a classification or getting censored by prudish tea-sippers, they were simply unclassified and therefore illegal to sell inside of australia. So the best part of this news is that this loophole has now been taken away from the over-zealous censors.

And Meatex, the criteria for classifications hasn't chagned AFAIK, so MA games will remain MA, while R games can now be released as R games.