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Game Over for Gamers4Croydon

By pete_gallagher

The Australian pro-videogame political party Gamers4Croydon is disbanding.

Founded by David Doe, a former videogame tester, the party was created in order to champion the addition of an R18+, adult videogame rating category in the land of Oz and to assist with the removal of anti-game South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson.

On the Gamers4Croydon website, Doe wrote that the party would not be competing in the upcoming federal elections as 'all good things come to an end, and it's time to pass the torch on to people with the resources and experience necessary to bring the change to bear politically.'

Doe encouraged backers to 'look closely' at the Australian Sex Party and the Australian Greens as possible replacements for support.
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 29, 2010 (boomark / email).