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Silent Hill: Homecoming unbanned in Australia (flag)
www.gamespot.com — Australian Classification Board revises refused classification status; Konami’s survival horror game green-lit for sale.

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Austrailian Silent Hill: Homecoming Ban Lifted [Game On]
Kotaku — ... release in the country. Now an update to the Classification Board's website dated yesterday indicates the title has now been given the MA15+ rating, and therefor may see the shining light of those lovely Australian store shelves. Now word on what if any cuts were made to the game to garner the new rating. I just think it's silly that a country filled with bears that drop out of trees to eat unsuspecting foreigners would be concerned with video game violence at all. Silent Hill: Homecoming unbanned in Australia [GameStop] ...

Australian Silent Hill: Homecoming Ban Lifted [Game On]
Kotaku — ... release in the country. Now an update to the Classification Board's website dated yesterday indicates the title has now been given the MA15+ rating, and therefor may see the shining light of those lovely Australian store shelves. Now word on what if any cuts were made to the game to garner the new rating. I just think it's silly that a country filled with bears that drop out of trees to eat unsuspecting foreigners would be concerned with video game violence at all. Silent Hill: Homecoming unbanned in Australia [GameStop] ...

Silent Hill: Homecoming Un-banned in Australia
GamePolitics News — In September, GamePolitics reported that Silent Hill: Homecoming had been refused classification (i.e., banned) by Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification. However, as we've seen with other game bans, OFLC censorcrats move in mysterious ways. GameSpot Australia is now reporting that the OFLC has revised its earlier refusal to classify SIlent Hill: Homecoming and the game has been approved for sale: At the time of the ban last year, an Atari spokesperson (Atari is the local distributor of the Konami game) confirmed to GameSpot AU that the board's grievances were ...

Silent Hill: Homecoming obtains classification in Australia
Joystiq — Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action Australia's OFLC has apparently seen fit to "unban" Silent Hill: Homecoming and grant it an MA15+ rating. The survival-horror game was previously refused classification by the organization for its violence. ...

Silent Hill: Homecoming classified by Australia's OFLC
Joystiq [Xbox] — Filed under: News After being refused classification by the OFLC -- Australia's ratings board -- Silent Hill: Homecoming is finally coming home Down Under with an MA15+ rating. The game had earlier failed to net an MA15+ rating in September of 2008, effectively banning it from sale. It wasn't alone, as several ...

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