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Are you really good at video and computer games? Then the New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland.  government needs you. Under law, each game sold in that nation must be rated by censors This is an incomplete list of censors of the Roman Republic
  • 312 BC-307 BC - Appius Claudius Caecus (and ?)
  • 304 BC - Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus and Publius Decius Mus
  • 293 BC - Publius Cornelius Arvina and Caius Marcius Rutilus
 for sex and violence. So the censorship censorship, official prohibition or restriction of any type of expression believed to threaten the political, social, or moral order. It may be imposed by governmental authority, local or national, by a religious body, or occasionally by a powerful private group.  board spends countless hours playing games. The problem is that the censors often aren't good enough to reach the higher levels of games to see what's there. Lawmakers are trying to address this problem, and a leading idea is to hire expert gamers Expert Gamer (often abbreviated to XG) was a United States-based video game magazine that was published by Ziff-Davis from August 1998 to October 2001. There are 39 issues of Expert Gamer total.  as censors. (Another is to let censors rate a game based on a general impression, not a detailed analysis.)
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Title Annotation:testing video games for the government of New Zealand
Author:Oliver, Charles
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Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:8NEWZ
Date:Jan 1, 2000
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