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In case you still somehow didn't believe yesterday's news that Duke Nukem Forever had been given an MA15+ rating in Australia - effectively evading the notoriously strict censors, we now have confirmation - directly from a 2K Games spokesperson - that the Duke has not been edited in any way for an Australian release.
Hooray!
To celebrate, here's some box art from Down Under:
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Is it possible that the government is finally growing up?
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Gotta smoke mate?
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It really is good to know that at the age of 31 our government has given me permission to play a computer game with some breasts and violence… I mean who new.
Kingsley
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god its ugly kill it!!
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if my government would be half as nannyish I would just give up living within the law…
i think it’s awesome now i can play a full version of a game i thought was gonna be flushed but what do u know we get an awesome game with no holds barred (technically)
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