BBFC Sees No Racism in Resident Evil 5
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has weighed in on Resident Evil 5 and finds no evidence of racism, reports Eurogamer.Complaints of racial insensitivity in RE5 have cropped up...
View ArticlePEGI or BBFC? U.K. to Announce Ratings Choice Next Week
Who will be in charge of video game ratings in the U.K.?That long-awaited answer will come next Tuesday, according to MCVUK. As GamePolitics readers know, a pair of entities have been competing for the...
View ArticlePEGI or BBFC for U.K. Ratings? We'll Find Out This Morning
The British Government's long-awaited decision as to which agency will take control of video game content rating chores in the U.K. should come this morning.gamesindustry.biz reports that the release...
View ArticleIt's PEGI Over BBFC in British Video Game Rating Battle
After more than a year of consideration, the British Government has selected the Pan-European Game Information system, better known as PEGI, will handle video game content rating chores in the U.K.The...
View ArticleTanya Byron Applauds PEGI Decision
Dr. Tanya Byron has thrown her support behind the British Government's recent decision to award the U.K.'s game rating chores to PEGI over the BBFC.MCVUK reports that Byron, who in 2008 completed a...
View ArticleBBFC Says It Investigated Crystal Meth Recipe in GTA IV
The British Board of Film Classification, which last week lost the battle for control of U.K. video game ratings to industry-favored rival PEGI, once investigated whether Grand Theft Auto IV contained...
View ArticleModern Warfare 2 Gets Adult Rating in UK, Loses Dedicated Servers?
Activision’s latest entry in the Call of Duty series has received an 18 rating from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).MCVUK notes that all the previous entries in the series were rated...
View ArticleBBFC Dishes on Gay Tony Content
The British Board of Film Classification has bestowed an 18 (Adult) rating upon Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City, the bundle which features both The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and The...
View ArticleAge Ratings, Anti-Piracy Subject of UK Digital Economy Bill
A few details regarding Britain’s Digital Economy Bill were touched on this morning as part of the Queen’s Speech to Parliament, in which the monarch outlines the coming legislative agenda.Among the...
View ArticleMPs Seek to Speed Up PEGI Introduction
As time winds down to the general elections, the UK government is attempting to push-through the Digital Economy Bill.MCVUK reports that, while some aspects of the bill are still hotly contested,...
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