The Department of Culture, Media and Sports of the United Kingdom government has decided that the country would use the Pan European Game Industry ratings system in order to label videogames. The decision comes after the Department took a close look at the Gordon Brown commissioned Byron report, which dealt with a wi... |
17 June 2009
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The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) supports the Pan European Games Ratings Information (PEGI) rating systems and not the homebrew British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), as some might think should be the case. Thus, since two companies with different opinions on how things shou... |
8 July 2008
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Probably for some of you, this does not come as a huge surprise, but today's decision of the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE) to use the PEGI system to rate one game, Against all Odds, was astonishing for the UK rating monitors, Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), t... |
30 June 2008
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The Interactive Software Federation of Europe has recently released a new report, based on data compiled by Nielsen Games, regarding the status of gaming in Europe. The report is entitled "Video Gamers in Europe - 2008" and manages to paint a very interesting picture regarding how games are played in Europe, while al... |
29 May 2008
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Following the approval of an amendment to the Viennese Youth Protection Act (at the meeting of the Viennese provincial government on 13 November 2007), the Pan European Game Information board, or PEGI, is going to to provide better protection for young people playing video games, in the respective PAL territory.Accor... |
12 December 2007
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An article I wrote a while ago said that the PEGI rating system (which currently evaluates all games released in the UK and the rest of Europe), was to be expanded to include games playable online via consoles, PCs and mobiles. Today's news shows that Microsoft is the first to sign up to the new labeling system,... |
20 July 2007
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The world isn't by far a safe place. Especially for the children who now have access to everything that's bad for them via Internet, TV and video games. Now, rating bards such as the BBFC, the ESRB and PEGI are making enormous efforts in keeping bad material away from those of inappropriate age. Thus, the P... |
6 July 2007
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