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92% of parents support their children playing videogames, 34% buy them inappropriate games

PEGI becomes sole rating system in the UK as poll results reveal that most parents are happy to let their children play videogames.

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Nintendo pulls drink driving game from digital store due to PEGI 3+ rating

PEGI is currently investigating the issue.

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gold_drake201d ago

to be honest, the whole age rating system needs a big overhaul. people are not as sensitive as some of these make us out to be ha.

Profchaos201d ago (Edited 201d ago )

Most of the ratings boards these days allow self examination and primarily work on a honour system.

Since the rise of streaming there's way to much content for governing bodies to shift through themselves so it's become standard practice in many places to rate it yourself on where you feel it fits into the scale so this is not the only thing that extorts the system but just one that got caught.

However back in my day you'd be selling a game on its rating being super high like doom but guess times have changed

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The Video Standards Council is now the Games Rating Authority

The Video Standards Council, which administrates the PEGI age rating for video games, has rebranded to the Games Rating Authority (GRA).

The name change was attributed to further clarifying the ratings board's position to parents and the games industry.

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Dan50346d ago

But the VSC originally had to do with movies....

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Looks Like XCOM: Chimera Squad Is Coming to PS4

The chances of XCOM: Chimera Squad making its way to PlayStation 4 in the near future appear to be very high as the PEGI ratings board has just finalised an appropriate age grading for a console port. - PushSquare

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