Entries in 'pegi' (72)
PEGI launches free iPhone app
PEGI – the Pan-European Game Information age rating system – has launched a free iPhone app that allows users to view ratings on the move.
ELSPA hails new Business, Culture Ministers
ELSPA has praised the appointment of the new Ministers for Culture and Business as the new Government takes shape.
Publishers praised for PEGI compliance
PEGI SA, the organisation that manages the PEGI ratings system, has praised games publishers for their high level of compliance with its advertising guidelines.
Byron calls for PEGI advertising
The video games industry must advertise PEGI once it comes into law, says child psychologist Tanya Byron.
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ISFE denies PEGI ratings dev snub
The Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE) says that it doesn’t ignore the views of developers in respect to assigning PEGI age ratings on games.
Ministers hope to fast-track PEGI
The UK Government has addressed fears that the Digital Economy Bill will not be passed before the General Election.
The Bill, which looks at age ratings, broadband and illegal ...
ELSPA campaign praised by Government
ELSPA’s fight to have PEGI instated by law has been singled out by a prominent Labour MP as one of the ‘greatest lobbying campaigns of all time’.
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PEGI legal ruling is ‘still on track’
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.
PEGI gets tough
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.
PEGI ‘likely to become law in 2010’
PEGI will have to wait the best part of a year until it becomes the UK’s sole classification system by law.
New age ratings here 'this summer'
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 ...
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DIGITAL BRITAIN: Nintendo throws support behind PEGI
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.
DIGITAL BRITAIN: New PEGI symbols unveiled
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.
DIGITAL BRITAIN: Election could delay PEGI changes
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 ...
NEWS ROUNDUP: Government backs PEGI
The Government has heralded a new future for UK video games classification – with PEGI becoming the sole age ratings model in the region.
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DIGITAL BRITAIN: The industry responds to PEGI ruling
A number of the most senior figures in the UK video games industry have responded to the government’s move to grant PEGI the sole power of video games classification.
DIGITAL BRITAIN: PEGI praises 'effective system'
Established European ratings body PEGI has understandably spoken of its confidence in the role it will now play in policing the nation’s gaming habits following the official government backing sanctioned ...
DIGITAL BRITAIN: ELSPA backs Government decision
Mike Rawlinson, the director general of games industry body ELSPA, has welcomed the government’s decision to back PEGI as the sole age ratings system for video games sold in the ...
Government ratings decision due next week
Labour will announce the new industry standard age classification system on Tuesday next week (June 16th) as part of its Digital Britain report, MCV can reveal.
UK industry welcomes EU report on games classifications
ELSPA, the trade body of UK games publishers, has welcomed the European Parliament's decision on games classification detailed in its recent “Report on the Protection of Consumers in respect of ...
ELSPA: 'PEGI is still the right solution for child safety'
ELSPA has fired back at headline-grabbing claims made today by the BBFC that parents in the UK are concerned over child safety and the content of video games.
ELSPA urges parents to look for PEGI symbols at Christmas
ELSPA (the Entertainment Leisure & Software Publishers Association) has urged parents looking to purchase games for Christmas to check the game’s packaging for the PEGI age ratings and content descriptors.
PEGI ratings could be legal standard by 2010
THE GOVERNMENT could be on the cusp of throwing out BBFC games ratings to make PEGI a legally-enforced standard, should it follow recommendations made by ELSPA this week.The ...
