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ELSPA has reassured the trade that the PEGI ratings system’s ascent to become law is still on track – despite the discovery that current age classification is legally unenforceable. A recent review of the 25 year-old Video Recordings Act discovered that the selling of adult videos and games to minors …

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ELSPA has quashed any suggestion that the PEGI classification model will be ‘weaker’ than the BBFC regime – warning publishers they risk bankruptcy if they try to cheat the system. Under the new model, publishers will fill in a questionnaire on the content of their game and submit it to …

PEGI will have to wait the best part of a year until it becomes the UK’s sole classification system by law. The proposal to implement PEGI as the UK’s only games age classification model, overseen by the Video Standards Council, was put forward by Labour in its Digital Britain White …

Games publishers are already manufacturing games boxes with PEGI’s ‘traffic light’ ratings on their cover – and hope to have the symbols on UK  boxes by the end of this summer. All new games released in Europe will feature the colour-coded symbols, after the UK Government gave the green light …

Digital Britain: Develop goes through the key points and reaction to the PEGI verdict

PEGI has lifted the lid on its new rating symbols that will come into effect following the government’s recent ruling outlined in the Digital Britain report. The new labels are largely the same as those currently seen on game boxes, though the old grey colouring has been replaced with a …

Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sega and other leading European games publishers have talked of their joy at the Government choosing PEGI as its sole age classification system. The news came yesterday as part of the Government’s Digital Britain report, and effectively removed the BBFC’s role in rating games. The Video …

A source close to the Video Standards Council, the body which will work alongside new games regulator PEGI, has told MCV that there’s not yet a timescale in place to roll-out the changes – and furthermore, there’s concerns that the upcoming general election could delay its implementation. Not only will …