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The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), the content rating board for games released in North America, has issued an "Adults Only" (AO) rating for 24 released video games. AO is the highest rating in the ESRB system, and indicates that the organization believes that the game's content is suitable only for players aged 18 years and over.
AO-rated games cannot be published for major video game console platforms, and most retailers do not stock AO-rated games. ESRB President Patricia Vance argued that applying self-censorship to ensure marketability was a compromise that is "true in every entertainment medium", but still believed that the idea of the AO rating eventually becoming ...
List of AO-rated video games; a list of games given the "Adults Only 18+" rating by the ESRB; NC-17 – Adults Only; assigned to films by the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system (MPAA) List of NC-17 rated films; a list of films rated NC-17 by the MPAA; 18 rating (many variants), a common "adults only" rating used by ...
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has launched a new ad campaign to let parents know that a.) Video game boxes have big black letters on them and b.) Those letters mean something to ...
The AO rating is the only rating that is legally restricted (except in the United States). The ESRB Retail Council “Ratings Education and Enforcement Code” requires that AO-rated games are not supplied to minors, and that M-rated games are not supplied to customers under the age of 17 unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. [6] EC
A growing number of young Americans are ready to press play on video games. This holiday season, video game-related gifts are topping wish lists for 76% of U.S. children ages 10-17, according to a ...
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US Senator Hillary Clinton was one of the senators who wrote a letter to ESRB concerning their rating of the game as Mature, asking the ESRB to re-rate the game to AO, where they described it as "visceral and casually sadistic". [45] In light of the BBFC and ESRB decisions, Rockstar decided to censor the game. Censoring took five main forms. [46]