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Mortal Kombat Reboot – The Aussie retailers have confirmed that franchise of the Mortal Kombat reboot is banned Down Under.

An official statement regarding the Mortal Kombat banning was released by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment-Australian Division on February 25.

The statement reads, “The highly anticipated videogame Mortal Kombat, published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) in Australia, has been refused classification by the Australian Classification Board and will not release in Australia.”

The issuance made by the Board was for disallowing WBIE to “market mature content” because of its unsuitability for the audience.

Based on board’s assessment, the game contains over 60 fatalities, all of which presents “explicit depictions” of different brutal forms of slaughter.

Although the game is just a fantasy, the ACB believed that most of the fighting scenes are exaggerated and almost “realistically rendered and very detailed.”  It meant that the latest game would still yield a greater influence to the minors.

The Board made it clear that the said explicit content never met the criteria set for an MA15+ guidelines.

At present, the Australian authorities have never authorized the ACB to provide an 18+ classification for any game.

The WBIE in Australia is looking for other options this time, but is still optimistic that the government will consider its appeal.

“We understand that not all content is for every audience, but there is an audience for mature gaming content and it would make more sense to have the R18+ classification in Australia,“ said WBIE in its statement.

Not only the government’s decision, but also some pros and cons will give their interpretations on the franchise of the Mortal Kombat reboot.

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Any Second Language – New research shows that learning any second language can protect a person against the onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

Psychologist and lead researcher Ellen Bialystok and her team conducted a study among 228 patients with the said conditions in terms of their language capability.

The study reflected that the average monolingual people have lesser brain stimulation than those bilingual people.

Dr. Bialystok believed that learning a second language helps boost the brain power, thus delaying dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

“It won’t stop you getting Alzheimer’s disease but you can cope with the disease for longer. Switching between languages is a stimulating activity — it is like carrying out brain exercises which builds up higher levels of what we call brain or cognitive reserve.

The study also found that bilingual people were diagnosed after four years later than the other half.

Being bilingual, according to her, can keep the human ‘executive control system’ to function longer. The said system is a part of the brain that controls human cognition, memory and language.

The researchers are still pursuing their study to identify whether using more than two languages can physically alter brain development.

Many people fail to realize the true benefit from speaking any second language.

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Worlds Loudest Cat - It would somehow take a highly tolerant pet owner to endure the world’s loudest cat that purrs like a lawnmower.

Pet cat Smokey is believed to have the loudest purr in the world.

Smokey’s owners Ruth and Mark Adams of England say that they are bothered, and even struggling, with its powerful purr.

“When I’m on the phone friends often ask what the loud noise is and they can’t believe it is coming from a cat,” said Ruth.

Unlike the 25 decibel purr for a typical cat, the extraordinary 12-year old British feline can have it at an average of 80 decibel. Such piercing sound is enough to overwhelm the radio and TV shows, and telephone conversations.

When measured close at hand, it clocked at almost 92 decibels equal to the sound of an incoming Boeing 737, hairdryer or a lawnmower.

The owners have already submitted an entry to the Guinness Book of World Records for the loudest cat category.

A spokesperson from Guinness says that to achieve an incredible 80dB would be an “astonishing feat” for a cat.” It is almost like a person shouting out loud, but not up enough to beat the human’s loudest scream, 129 decibel.

The couple adopted Smokey from rescue center NANNA in Northants in 2008 as a gift to their 10-year-old daughter, Amy.

If interested, anyone can still prepare for ear plugs if he wants to listen to the purr of the world’s loudest cat

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