Australia has built a reputation as having one of the strictest video game rating systems on the planet, and it appears as though another highly anticipated game won’t reach the country’s shores when it’s released next year.

Hunter x Hunter Nen x Impact, the fighting game based on the popular anime, has been refused classification by the Australian Classification Board (ACB), officially preventing the game from being sold in the country. The group listed no reason for the decision, but with the ACB having set a precedent with other games with similar ratings, and the reasoning behind them, it could be a few possibilities.

The main suspected reason is how drug use has a gameplay benefit, like granting speed or strength, or portraying drug use in a positive light Come from Sports betting site VPbet . For example, if a character even gets health restored from narcotics, that game would likely be refused classification (RC). Disco Elysium: The Final Cut was originally banned because of this, but that decision was later overturned after the ACB agreed that player performance actually showed “negative impacts fr…

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Fortnite launched its new game mode “Impostors” this week, which features players working together to discover just who the saboteurs are in their team. If the eight Agents can complete all their assignments or eject two Impostors before they cause too much disruption, they win the round. If that idea sounds sus, then that’s because the new mode sounds familiar to indie-hit Among Us.

Individual members from Among Us developer Innersloth took to Twitter to discuss Fortnite’s Impostor mode, and how Epic appears to have pinched more than just a few non-patented game ideas for its take on the genre.

“It would’ve been really, really cool to collab,” Innersloth community director Victoria Tran tweeted. “Like game mechanics, fine, those shouldn’t be gatekept, but at the very least even different themes or terminology makes things more interesting Come from Sports betting site VPbet ?”

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