Finding age-appropriate gifts for gamers

It's almost a certainty if you have a child who is into video games: (s)he is going to want to biggest titles this Christmas. That means that games such as Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops II and 343 Industries' Halo 4 are probably on that list. Honestly, that's just fine -- so long as the person who the game is for is of the appropriate age for those games.

[Tuxmask55]

I agree that parents need to pay attention to ESRB ratings. There's nothing much more annoying than hearing some 12 year old whining over XBLA during CoD multiplayer.

[NukaCola]

Halo has always been rated M. Personally I don't know why when Uncharted is rated Teen. Halo is sci-fi, with minimal language and multicolored blood. Uncharted has a lot of sexual innuendo, a ton of violence, and mature themes.

[goldwyncq]

Eh, not really. Indiana Jones films have lots of gruesome deaths... a guy's face melting, getting killed by a propeller, getting your heart ripped out, being eaten alive by ants... and yet those were only rated PG 13.