Now entering the Kung-Fu Election ring – Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Joe Biden. Atom.com has just announced an update to its free-to-play, browser-based Kung-Fu Election. Senator Biden wields a sword, while Governor Palin wields a menacing hockey-stick.

Kung-Fu Election is a Mortal Kombat style fighting game filled with governmental figures who have been involved with the 2008 election. The Democratic characters seem to bear more of a resemblence to Street Fighter characters, while the Republican ones look more like Mortal Kombat fighters. You pick a fighter (Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, John McCain, Cindy McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliana, Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee) and then beat down the competition. Its much quicker than the normal election process…

Every country has their own opinion as far as ratings go. In the US we have the ESRB rating system and in Finland they have the PEGI (Pan European Game Information) classification.

Recently the Finnish Christian Democratic Party demanded censorship of video games which was not previously included in their laws.

PEGI, a collaboration between game studios, child welfare and other organizations, wants to divide games into five categories to prevent possible violence and erotic content of video games from getting into the hands of Finnish children. With all the hype about game content flooding the news, they deemed it necessary to inspect and…