Software publishers back vid game ratings

November 19, 2008 The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Assn., the U.K. trade organization of gaming software developers, is throwing its weight behind the currently non-enforceable Pan European Game Information system for video game age ratings and classification. The powerful U.K. lobbying group's decision is a blow to the work of the British Board of Film Classification, which currently issues guidelines for video games that are legally binding, similar to its work for film and video. ELSPA's decision is part of the organization's submission to a British government study led by Tanya Byron on the way video games aimed at children are classified.

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