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by Alice O'Connor, Jun 16, 2009 1:45pm PDTThe UK government has today announced that game ratings will switch to the industry-established self-declaration PEGI system already in use across much of Europe.
PEGI ratings contain an age recommendation as well as icons indicating questionable content such as violence, drugs, sex and gambling. The Video Standards Council will have the authority to ban games which attempt to circumvent the self-declared ratings.
Many in the industry have responded favourably to the news, including representatives of Nintendo, EA UK, Sega Europe and Ubisoft UK. "Parents can be assured that they will have access to clear, uniform ratings on games and an accurate understanding of game content," said Mike Rawlinson, president of industry body ELSPA.
The British Board of Film Classification was previously responsible for rating mature games. The BBFC controversially refused to rate Carmaggedon and Manhunt 2 which effectively banned them until its decisions were overturned on appeal--though the former was rated in the interim after turning pedestrians into green-blooded zombies.
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It will silence a lot of idiots who seem the think a game being banned or made to be reworked in order to be release somehow makes it awesome. Like Manhunt, jesus that game was bad.
Plus, the added bonus is that retailers and developers, as well as the industry as whole will bear less of the brunt of hyocritical and misinformed attacks by right-wing maniacs when the next teenager decides to take a blade to the face of the assholes who beat the shit out of him every day in school.
Of course, if this entails actually changing the game content in any way in order for it to be given even the highest rating, I can see this becoming a pain in the ass.
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