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Europe's PEGI will raise age ratings for games with loot boxes and microtransactions

Starting in June, the Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) age rating system, Europe's equivalent to the ESRB, will begin assigning PEGI-16 ratings to all games that sell ...

Inspired by USK: Age rating system PEGI penalizes loot boxes

The European age rating system PEGI will soon only approve video games with loot boxes from the age of 16. The USK served as inspiration.
Eurogamer

The impossible question: will the director general of European age-ratings body PEGI allow his teenage son to play Grand Theft Auto 6?

For as long as there have been age-ratings on games, one series more than any other has been used to represent the dangers of under-age gaming in our society: goon-to-kingpin gangster series Grand ...
Worthplaying

EU Ratings Board Adds New Age-Rating Categories For Loot-Boxes, Blockchain, In-Game Purchases And Unrestricted Communications

PEGI, the Pan-European system for the age classification of video games, is adding new categories to its classification criteria to address online interaction risks.
Video Games Chronicle

All games with loot boxes in them will be rated minimum PEGI 16, starting this summer

Games with “paid random items” – generally described as loot boxes – will have a default rating of PEGI 16, meaning they can’t legally be sold to children 15 or under in ...

Video game PEGI age-ratings are changing in Europe and it's probably not good news for EA Sports FC

Video game age-ratings are about to change in Europe. The Pan-European Game Information age-ratings body, better known as PEGI, which determines the age-ratings for games everywhere in Europe apart ...
GamesIndustry.biz

Games with loot boxes will be rated PEGI 16 from June, as part of sweeping changes to the age-rating system

PEGI director Dirk Bosmans explains why the European body is rethinking how it rates games, taking into account "online interactive risks" such as battle passes ...
BrooklynVegan

Mekons announce dub album 'HORRORble' (hear a track), touring before Wilco's Solid Sound Festival

Mekons have handed last year’s terrific HORROR over to Pere Ubu‘s Tony Maimone, who also played in Mekons in the early ’90s, ...
9to5Mac

iPhone 18 Pro: Three new design updates are coming this year

iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will launch this fall, and alongside packing a handful of new features, there are three design changes reportedly coming. Here’s what the latest rumors say. #1: Unified rear ...
MacRumors

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max Prices: Here's What Rumors Say

Apple is aiming for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max to have the same starting prices as the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, according to Jeff Pu, an equity analyst with ...
USA Today

WNBA All-Star to have surgery after tearing meniscus playing overseas

Brionna Jones has some injury recovery time ahead. The four-time WNBA All-Star forward suffered a knee injury while playing overseas for USK Praha, according to the Instagram account for the club ...