Archive For Australia Tag

PS4 Has Been Australia’s Top Selling Console Every Year for the Past Five Years

PS4 Has Been Australia’s Top Selling Console Every Year for the Past Five Years

Global success like this is why the PS4 is in the lead.

Australian Gambling Analyst Says Loot Boxes Are Gambling

Australian Gambling Analyst Says Loot Boxes Are Gambling

Yes, let this get bigger.

Nintendo Switch And Breath of the Wild Were Nintendo’s Most Successful Launches Ever In New Zealand and Australia
Xbox One S Outsells PS4 In Australia On The Back Of Forza Horizon 3
Watch Dogs Was A Runaway Hit in Australia

Watch Dogs Was A Runaway Hit in Australia

Big hit down under.

Hotline Miami’s Developer To Australia: Just Pirate It

Hotline Miami’s Developer To Australia: Just Pirate It

'Enjoy the game.'

Target Pulls GTA5 From Store Shelves In Australia Following Concerns Being Raised About Its Depiction of Violence Against Women
You Can Finally Buy Left 4 Dead 2 Uncensored in Australia

You Can Finally Buy Left 4 Dead 2 Uncensored in Australia

That's a zombie revival.

THQ Asia Pacific Offices to be shutdown in Australia

THQ Asia Pacific Offices to be shutdown in Australia

THQ is in a restructuring period.

R+18 Bill To Go Before Australian Parliment In February

R+18 Bill To Go Before Australian Parliment In February

Last year Australian gamers rejoiced at federal, state, and territory censorship ministers reaching an agreement to introduce an 18+ rating classification to their country. The bill for the rating wil... Read More

Nintendo 3DS sells 200,000 units in 37 weeks in Australia

Nintendo 3DS sells 200,000 units in 37 weeks in Australia

Nintendo Australia has announced that the 3DS has sold 200,000 units in the country in 37 weeks. It beat every other console that sold 200k in a faster time frame. The price drop would have help... Read More

Australian PS3 sales surge after price cut

Australian PS3 sales surge after price cut

We knew Sony would end up selling a bit more PS3's after the price cut but according to the latest reports from Australia, it may have exceeded Sony's expectations. Sony Computer Entertainment Austr... Read More

Australia Get R18+ Rating

Australia Get R18+ Rating

Has Hell frozen over? After years of debate, the green light has finally been given to an 18+ rating for video games is Australia. A unanimous vote was needed from all nine of the State reps in the ... Read More

Australians get identity protection offer from Sony

Australians get identity protection offer from Sony

After US and EU, Sony is offering identity protection to Australian users. The PSN breach exposed 100 million credit cards and Sony had to offer identity production to Playstation users. Dear Pla... Read More

Australian Government Hope To Have 18+ Rating Added To Classification System By Summer

Australian Government Hope To Have 18+ Rating Added To Classification System By Summer

In Australia, any game deemed more adult or explicit than their 15+ rating is effectively banned. This has not only banned a few key titles from Australian distribution but has also required heavy edi... Read More

PS3 sells more than a million units in Australia

PS3 sells more than a million units in Australia

The PS3's sold 1 million units in Australia. These sales include the numbers since its launch in the country back in March 2007. According to a GameSpot AU report, PS3 dominated 26.5 percent... Read More

Australian writer rumored to have been fired after pressure from Rockstar

Australian writer rumored to have been fired after pressure from Rockstar

An editor for Australian magazine Zoo Weekly, Toby McCasker, has reportedly been sacked after writing a less than favourable article on Rockstar's upcoming game Red Dead Redemption. According to th... Read More

$1.5m fine for illegal game upload

$1.5m fine for illegal game upload

A man who recieved an early copy of Super Mario Bros. Wii and uploaded it to a website has been hit with a $1.5m fine plus $100,000 to cover court costs. James Burt, 24, copied and uploaded the gam... Read More