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Sunday Comics: Dead Island News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming:
• QuickHit Football had a solid debut year in 2009 and won an NFL licence a year later. Then it lost its director of design, a veteran of the beloved NFL 2K5, and was bought up by Majesco around E3 last year. Now it’s losing the NFL licence that seems to be the holy grail of sports gaming.
The upcoming Risen 2: Dark Waters has been asked by the ESRB to change its front cover, because there was simply too much of the ol’ claret splashed across the box art.
You come to Kotaku every day, right? So it stands to reason that you know all about the E through M ratings that grace the boxes of video games in America. But if you’re not a regular reader of this fine site — say, one who buy video games for a younger lifeform — you may not even know that the content ratings exist.
Hey, so the ESRB released its ratings certificate for Kinect Star Wars, let’s read along: “In this action game, based on the Star Wars universe,” mmhm, yeah, “players use their body movements to perform activities,” right, gotcha, “that include dance tournaments“.
It’s the height of the fall rush, and more and more games rain down upon us every day. And with so many games, whoever will tell us which of them contains objectionable content? The Entertainment Software Rating Board, that’s who!
