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Video Game Ratings System Adds New Category


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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The video game ratings system will add a new category to protect children under 10 from seeing certain kinds of violence, the board that administers the system said on Wednesday.

The Entertainment Software Rating Board said "E10+" would mark games that might contain "moderate amounts of cartoon, fantasy or mild violence, mild language and/or minimal suggestive themes."

The E10+ rating will reside on the scale between "E," meaning a game is appropriate for all ages, and "T," meaning a game for teenagers. The ratings system also includes "M" ratings for those over 17 and the rarely-used "AO" for adult audiences only.

The ESRB said it expected most top sports, racing and adventure games would continue to take an E rating, while racing games with graphic crashes and fighting games with superheroes would likely take an E10+.

The ESRB rates virtually every game released in the United States. Its system has been praised by the federal government as one of the most effective in the media industry.

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What a total load of crap. What happened to the PWWYKAP system ?

That would be the Parents Watch What Your Kids Are Playing system.

I am a parent. The rating are worthless if you do not take an active interest in what your children are doing.

We do not need the government telling us what is acceptable, we need real parenting.

Ok, off my soapbox.

-Kreij

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