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New US Bill Wants To Turn Game Labels, Sale Restrictions Into Law
US Democratic congressman Jim Matheson has introduced a bill known as “H.R. 287″, which is the latest attempt to introduce tighter controls on the way video games are sold in the United States.
ESRB Opens No-Cost Ratings Service For Digitally Distributed Games
Downloadable games sold through the three console makers’ online services will be rated by what the Entertainment Software Ratings Board is calling a “streamlined, no-cost service,” in a statement released today by the ESRB. The new “Digital Rating Service” gives developers and publishers access to a “brief but detailed online questionnaire” to define a product’s covers downloadable games on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo’s eShop and Wii Shop Channel, and Windows 8.
Borderlands 2′s Official Rating Is Outstanding
Back at E3 I was dismayed to learn that, thanks to prudes overseas, Borderlands 2‘s darkly humorous death animations would have to be toned down from the original’s, which included eyeball-exploding electrocutions.
Free-To-Play Football Title Loses Its NFL Licence
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.
There Was Too Much Blood On This Game’s Cover
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.
