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July 1, 2015 08:32 am GMT

'Douchebag Beach Club': The top 5 games banned in Australia in the past four months

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Australia only got a R18+ rating for gaming in 2013, but that doesn't mean everything is now making it past the country's infamous Classification Board.

In fact, Australia banned 220 online games in the past four months. That's a significant jump in number, ABC News reported, and almost four times the amount refused classification in the period between 1994 and 2014.

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Refusing classification means the game cannot be sold, rented or advertised in Australia.

The Classification Board ascribes the marked increase to a trial of the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC), the official 12 month pilot of which launched in Australia on Wednesday Read more...

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