Europe's game rating agency takes aim at in-app purchases, loot boxes, and 'unrestricted communication' with new 'interactive risk categories'

Credit: EA European game rating agency PEGI is about to make life more complicated for some game developers, as it plans to ...

Europe's game rating agency takes aim at in-app purchases and 'unrestricted communication'

New PEGI categories coming in June could see the age ratings for some games take a jump up.

Loot Boxes And Battle Passes Are About To Impact Game Ratings More Harshly

The latest set of changes coming to the Pan-European Games Information (PEGI) rating system will impact how games that feature loot boxes, microtransactions, and NFTs will be rated going forward. As ...
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Game age rating system PEGI to get big changes for in-game items and online play

The Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) age rating system today announced some big changes are coming to the way games are rated.
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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 ...
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Hey Valve, here is how you can fix the Steam Deck game rating system

We're long overdue for an overhaul of the Steam Deck game rating system. What was initially a great idea has now become somewhat controversial, and the Unsupported, Playable, Verified ratings are no ...