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Think Tank Issues Study on Video Game Ratings
Corduroy1982
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Admittedly, I'm one of the guys at the think tank that wrote this paper, but everyone who's been following the presidential debates and recent announcements by Congressmen Baca and Wolf pressuring the ESRB to change its rating system, should enjoy this study. The message needs to be loud and clear to Capitol Hill, "Keep your hands off our games!"
You can read it at the Competitive Enterprise Institute website.
Or check out the write-up at GamePolitics.com, where they have a pretty good discussion going in the comments section.
If you like it, please digg it.
You can read it at the Competitive Enterprise Institute website.
Or check out the write-up at GamePolitics.com, where they have a pretty good discussion going in the comments section.
If you like it, please digg it.
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The CARA system is amusing because they don't use a list of possible descriptions like the ESRB, but instead seem to write them anew for every movie that they rate, simply describing it.
One of the comments on GamePolitics.com mentioned that the rating for Twister was accompanied with a descirption that read:
Absolutely silly. It would be hilarious, however, if this did go into some giant lexicon of ratings tags and was trotted back out for Twister II or a new thriller called Hail. I could see it being a Kevin Bacon vehicle.