News Tagged: rating

EA CEO John Riccitiello, also chairman of the US ESRB, stated that worldwide growth of the games audience calls for a global rating system that's applicable to all formats and regulated by the industry itself. The influential executive was in Washington DC...

Right, remember that brilliant moment for Australian gaming history when the country finally got the R18+ rating for video games? Well, the final guidelines for the R18+ have just been uncovered via the folks at GameSpot, who spoke on the subject with Australia's Federal Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O'Connor...

The unthinkable seems to have happened. Australia, land of the kangaroos, surfing and the Akubra hat, has finally got the R18+ rating for video games, which is the equivalent for ESRB's 'M' Mature and the 'PEGI 18' ratings in US and UK. The green light for the rating ...

Dragon Age 2 is now officially rated 'M' for Mature in the United States, although we expected as much. Thing is, in ESRB's description of the game's naughty segments, which include some violence and a bit of humpty-dumpty. Here's a snip from the description: "In one cutscene, a man's severed head is held up then tossed to the ground...