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Quantic Foundry survey of over 1,000 players also discovers that co-op is equally popular between genders, while men prefer to face off against each other
Read More »Windows Store adopts ‘streamlined’ IARC rating system
PC and mobile titles to use free global classification process
Read More »Games Media Profile: Everybody Plays
Ian Morris, editor of inclusive family-friendly games website Everybody Plays, explains the importance of knowing the age suitability of kids’ titles – and why next-gen isn’t for everyone yet What are you working on at the moment? At the moment, all hands are on deck building up our coverage for …
Read More »The six-year-old Apple App Store in numbers
Apple’s App Store has reached the ripe old age of six, and as of right now contains some 1,252,777 apps. A further 578,000 will be added in the next 12 months, too. That’s according to Adjust’s Birth, Life and Death of an App report, which reckons that there were 453,902 …
Read More »How would you describe the average British gamer?
Gamers? Ha! A bunch of overweight, spotty boys cooped up in their rooms because they’re too socially awkward to step outside, right? Wrong. So very, very wrong. CVG has word of a new survey from gaming social network Pixwoo that finds that the average British gamer is as follows: They’re …
Read More »We’ve done our job – now it’s time for parents to do theirs
PEGI age ratings have been law in the UK for a whole week now. But the battle is only just beginning. The successful introduction of a single, legally enforceable age ratings system for video games software is a tremendous victory for a games industry that is still fighting those who …
Read More »PEGI games ratings come into force today
After what seems like an eternity of legislation limbo, PEGI age ratings for video games have become law in the UK today. UKIE has done a great job of getting decent coverage of the achievement on the BBC this morning – all the more impressive considering the blanket reporting of …
Read More »FEATURE: PEGI is law – what now?
A lot has happened since Tanya Byron first put pen to paper on her Byron Review in September 2007. We’ve had the on-set of the global recession, swine flu, Barack Obama, the volcanic ash cloud, two major earthquakes, a tsunami and the death of Michael Jackson. Elsewhere, Manchester United (twice), …
Read More »"Only 36% of parents check game age ratings"
A survey from Playr2.com has claimed that as many as 36 per cent of parents check the age restrictions of games their children are playing. Of that 36 per cent, 55 per cent claimed that in their opinion age restriction on games didn’t matter”. 51 per cent of the respondents …
Read More »Kids and Call of Duty
David Braben looks at the games rating system and if parents and devs are acting responsibly
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