Browsing all articles tagged with Censorship.
Whitehall blunder means it’s legal to sell adult games to kids.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
By strange coincidence given my post topic earlier today, it has just come to light via The Times that the Act governing the sale and classification of video games in the UK (as well as DVD’s and videos) was never enacted!
This effectively means that the authorities are unable to legally stop anybody from selling 18 [...]
Electronic Arts condemns German ‘censorship’.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Gerhard Florin (Electronic Arts executive VP) has publically requested that Germany ditch it’s current USK rating system and adopt the more widely used European standard PEGI.
“What we’re doing here is censorship,” stated Florin. “And nobody complains. When we talk about games here it’s about violence or their alleged addictiveness, and not about their cultural status. [...]
