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Arkham Asylum Gets Its GOTY (Edition)

The British Board of Film Classification has listed a Game of the Year edition for Batman: Arkham Asylum, offering no details beyond the fact it’s a separate version under a different name.


December 3, 2009
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More Movies Refused BBFC Classification Than Games

In an attempt to counter unfair stereotypes about games, UK game industry trade organisation TIGA reveals that three times as many movies have been refused British Board of Film Classification ratings than games in the past five years.


October 22, 2009
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The Ballad Of Gay Tony To Have “Strong” Sex, Ample Thrusting

How does Rockstar Games plan to one-up the shock factor of full frontal male nudity from Grand Theft Auto: The Lost & Damned? Perhaps with some “strong” sex scenes and thrusts aplenty in The Ballad of Gay Tony.


June 23, 2009
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Wait, There Was A Recipe For Meth In GTAIV?

Proof that in a world as big as Grand Theft Auto IV’s you can play it for months and never see all the game has to offer: apparently there’s a “recipe” for the production of methamphetamines hidden somewhere in the game.


June 17, 2009
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PEGI Triumphs Over The BBFC

The war between the British Board of Film Classification and the Pan-European Game Information system over UK game ratings comes to an end today, with PEGI to act as the UK’s sole age rating system.


March 10, 2009

Silent Hill Gets Re-Rated, Wii-make Announcement Coming Soon?

If Konami does have plans to re-release the original Silent Hill for the Wii and PSP, as previously rumoured, that announcement must be coming soon, as the BBFC has just recently rated the title.


March 2, 2009
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British Rating Board: Resident Evil 5 Is Not Racist

When the Resident Evil 5 trailer was first shown, it raised some eyebrows. Some were critical, saying the set-in-Africa game used racist imagery.


January 16, 2009
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MadWorld Won’t Be Censored For UK

Upcoming Wii title MadWorld has made it through the British rating board, the BBFC. There will be no content changes to game — probably the most violent title since No More Heroes.


January 12, 2009
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Ratings: ESRB on Punch-Out, BBFC on Chinatown Wars

The British Board of Film Classification have given Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, an 18-rating. No surprise there, but the classification also mentions that there’s 168 minutes of cutscenes in the game.


November 22, 2008
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PEGI Should Be Legal Standard In UK – ELSPA

The consultation period for the UK’s Byron Review into age ratings and the effects of videogames on children has now concluded and the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) have presented their report to the UK Government.