Australia continues to deal with the fact that their video game ratings system only allows for games to be rated as 15+, unlike their movies and magazines. Today Gamasutra reports that Konami's survival horror game Silent Hill: Homecoming has become the fourth such title in 2008 to be refused classification by the country's Office of Film and Literature Classification.

As one might expect the game got cited for its violent content including ""finishers involving ramming pipes through enemies' heads and stomping on their faces to pull them out, tearing their entrails loose with an axe, or simply some good old-fashioned bludgeoning." The three previous games that were banned in Australia (Shellshock 2, Dark Sector and Fallout 3) were later edited and given a 15+ rating. Silent Hill Homecoming will only be released on the PC platform via Valve's Steam service.