Interesting article. I think the main problem is that politicians all over the world are cowards. None of them want to stick out their necks on a controversial issue to change the status quo. The status quo in Australia happens to be that there's no adult rating, but if it happened to be the same here in the US or in Europe, how many politicians would be willing to stand up agasint censorship to change the law? Not many, I'd bet. But you know that sooner or later the laws will change. It's inevitable. As recently as the 1960's some books were banned in the US. Videogames are a relatively new medium, so old politicians don't understand them. When they die out and are replaced with younger ones who've actually played games, things will change.

I really don't think it's that big of a deal, unless you are someone who actually attended E3. Otherwise, who cares? We gamers will still be marketed to, I promise.

Seems kind of dumb to test it 6 months before release. Of course it's not going to work perfectly. If it did, they'd release it now.

You have to keep in mind that it was developed as a PC game all along and only ported to the 360 late in development (and not by the developer either), so naturally it's not going to look as good as a game designed for the 360 from day 1. And actually I can't see any difference at all b/t the midpc and 360 screens when I move my mouse over the shot. Is that feature not working?