Australia urged to move on from ‘moral panic’ over video games after Disco Elysium banned

Calls for changes to classification system after award-winning role-playing game said to offend standards of morality'

The banning of video game Disco Elysium from sale in Australia has renewed calls for the Australian government to overhaul the classification system to move away from the moral panic" associated with video games.

On Friday afternoon, the Australian classification board announced Disco Elysium - The Final Cut was refused classification on the grounds the game was found to depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena" in a way that offended against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults". It ruled the game should not be classified.