Popular video game streaming service Twitch has announced today that it is taking measures to ban games that are rated as Adult Only. This shouldn’t affect the vast majority of games on Nintendo platforms, but it’s an interesting move by the streaming company. Games that will be banned include Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Manhunt 2 and any other title that has received an AO rating by the ESRB. Twitch also confirmed that the bans will only apply to AO games in the United States.

“Previously, we made game-specific decisions about which games would and would not be available for broadcast – sometimes due to overtly sexual content, sometimes due to Gratuitous Violence.”

“If the game is AO in the US, then it is not allowed. If the game is not AO in the US, but has a different rating abroad, like The Witcher 3, it is permitted.”

 

Source: http://mynintendonews.com/2015/05/28/twitch-bans-adults-only-games/

I actually didn't know there was a single game that used the AO rating! Even games with explicit content like BMX XXX and Magna Cum Laude were just rated mature.

So basically, Hatred? It's coming out in a couple of days.

Wow, how biased. AO gamers have rights too!

quick someone register twitchxxx.tv! I can smell billions of dollars!

BMX XXX is also banned, even though it's rated M. Kind of ironic considering that games like God of War and Grand Theft Auto are considered fine.

How many AO games exist anyway? I've never seen them for sale at any store, or maybe game shops just don't sell them?

Please, I wouldn't qualify showing a girl in underwear in a game as overly sexual content (Huniepop steam version).

This is probably just a clarification of the rules as there is already more censorship that this rule indicates.

Censorship, of any kind, will only slow us down

Also why is this on the Nintendo discussion?

I didn't mean to put that on Nintendo discussion. Can I change it or can only mods change it?