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Twenty years ago, when I first started in the games industry, I was 17 and Grand Theft Auto III was being raked over the coals. There had been moral panics about video games before (Mortal Kombat and Carmageddon leap to mind), but GTA III being pulled from shelves in Australia was a real awakening for our industry. It had to be re-released in an edited form, and that whole process was not a trifling matter for those of us involved. In the first few years of my career, working in PR at Rockstar Games, the hits kept on coming. I was submitting games for classification during the time when an ed...

Sex workers fear a new wave of deplatforming — and the proposed Online Safety Bill Posted FriFriday 19 updated FriFriday 19 FebFebruary 2021 at 10:57pm Sex workers are worried a combination of "digital gentrification" and online safety regulation will force them offline. ( Print text only Cancel Avery, a sex worker, lost her first Twitter account in early 2020, built her followers back up, and then early this year was kicked off again. When she went to set up a third account, she found she could no longer use the name she had been using for sex work and adult content — she'd lost h...

About the author Steve Wright Steve's the owner of this very site and an active games journalist for the past ten years. He's a Canadian-Australian gay gaming geek, ice hockey player and fan. Husband to Matt and cat dad to Wally and Quinn. Stevivor is an independent video games outlet that has serviced Australia, New Zealand and the world since 2009. We’ve been featured on Google News since 2014, and Apple News, OpenCritic and Metacritic since 2016. We were added to The Game Awards’ jury in 2017 and the Game Critics Awards E3 panel in 2018. Stevivor was named as Highly Commended in the ca...