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‘We Happy Few’ Denied Rating for Australia

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While we wait for Compulsion Games’ We Happy Few to nail down that release date (it was originally scheduled for release back in April), news out of Australia is not good for those looking to buy the game.

According to Australia’s Classification Board, which handles ratings for games and film in the country, We Happy Few has been denied classification, due to the main game’s use of the Soma-like drug “Joy”, which is used in the game to detract the citizens of Wellington Wells from the Orwellian reality they live in. According to the code, video games that “depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.”

Obviously, this isn’t the first time the Australian Classification Board has been the thorn in the video games industry. Fallout 3 was initially denied a rating for the drug Morphine (which was changed to Med-X and resubmitted), and Rockstar’s Manhunt was denied because of “high impact violence involving torture”. And of course, horror films are not safe. Wes Craven’s classic The Last House on the Left got slapped with a ban in 1987, and would remain that way until 2004 when the film was passed uncut.

There’s no word yet on if Compulsion Games will issue a patch or rework the game to satisfy the Board, but the latter seems unlikely. We Happy Few is set for release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC this summer.

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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August

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We told you earlier this month that horror legend Clive Barker is leaving the convention scene behind to focus entirely on his writing, with various upcoming projects in the works.

A series of final appearances from Barker will begin at Days of the Dead Chicago this month, and we’ve learned Barker will also be coming to Monster Mania in New Jersey.

Clive Barker will be signing at Monster Mania 59 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which runs from August 2 – August 4, 2024. Stay tuned for more info from the convention.

Barker’s official statement earlier this month explained, “… it’s time to focus entirely on writing. I’m not stopping public events because I’ve lost delight in meeting you all over the years. I’m as passionate as ever about sharing my imagination with readers and moviegoers around the world. In the very room where I’m writing these words, I have the manuscripts for a very large number of projects (Thirty-one of them), some very close to completion, others still telling themselves. There are some wild projects in this collection of works, whether close to finished or done. There are also stories that you all knew I would be finishing.”

“Abarat IV and V are amongst the books at my feet,” he continued. “So is the Third and final book of The Art and the sequel to The Thief of Always. There are also return visits to characters and mythologies you may have thought I would never return to.

“I hope I am still able to surprise you in the decades ahead.”

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