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VR Mode Changes Game’s ESRB Rating Even For Players Who Don’t Get The New Mode
Many PlayStation owners received a system notification on Thursday that the frenetic arcade-style shooter Super Stardust Ultra is getting bumped up from an ESRB rating of E to E10+. A video game’s rating doesn’t usually change after it’s been released. In this case, strangely, the rating will change even though, for some people, the game…
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Chlamydia And Slutty Clowns: The ESRB Rates This Season’s Big Games
We normally think of game ratings as little more than a useful marker of where we’ll be able to buy a game, or whether or not it’s suitable for children. But oh, let me tell you: ESRB literature can be so, so much more than that.
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The ESRB Provides The Latest Preview Of South Park: The Stick Of Truth
It should be no surprise that South Park: The Stick of Truth is chock full o’ filth-flarn-flarn-filth-flarn and hellbent for an M-for-Mature rating. It’s still fun to hear the ESRB reading the dialogue aloud from its fainting couch.
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US Video Game Retailers Do A Good Job Of Not Selling Adult Games To Kids
Last year, the Federal Trade Commission in the US ran an undercover shopper sting, aimed at testing various retailers’ compliance with age ratings for media products. Kids aged 13-16, without the supervision of an adult, were asked to try buyin unrated DVDs, explicit albums and M-rated video games.