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Coolest Girl In School gets international release on mobile

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Coolest Girl In School gets international release on mobile

Australian mobile game Coolest Girl In School is getting an international release, on the back of the publicity around its launch Down Under last year.

As we wrote at the time, the game caused a stir for its risque content (sex, drugs, violence and suicide, apparently).

It was even condemned by a campaign group called The Family Association - although not being up on my Aussie protest groups, I'm not sure if that's one outraged bloke sitting in a room, like many of the comparable bodies here in the UK.

The game is the work of two Adelaide-based companies, Champagne for the Ladies and Kukan Studio. It sees you lying, bitching and flirting your way to the top of your high-school hierarchy, and is aimed at girls.

"It's not GTA for girls, it's better!" says Champagne for the Ladies producer Holly Owen. "Unlike other areas of gaming, well over half of casual mobile gamers are women, but very few games are made specifically for female audiences."

Anyway, gamers outside Australia can now get hold of the game from its official website: it costs $7 (that's Australian dollars - around £3.35), using PayPal as the purchase mechanism.

Stuart Dredge
Stuart Dredge
Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)