Game Content Ratings Not Always To Be Trusted?

Thanks to Reuters for its article discussing video games rated 'T' for teens containing 'explicit' content that's not noted on the game box. According to Harvard-based researchers checking on the voluntary ESRB ratings for videogames: "Although most of the games' content matched their ratings, [the survey] found that 48 percent of games contained some content that was not noted on the game box." The piece goes on to note specific examples: "For instance, 12 of the 81 games showed the use of substances such as tobacco and alcohol, while only 1 game had received that type of content descriptor from the ESRB. And while the researchers reported sexual content in 22 games, only 16 had received a sexual content descriptor" - the survey abstract at the American Medical Association's site has further information on the researchers' results.

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oh come on...

[planetsphinx]

This has to be based on opinion.. What one person calles sexual content, I call an every day thing.. Maybe if I reviewed these games.. I would find only 10 of the reported 18 games really had sexual content.. What is it with American's (I'm an American by the way) being all against sex.. I mean come on.. isn't everybody a closet pr0n freak anyway..

I say let the pr0n out of the closet! Educate our children so they know about sex so they don't have to experiment and get in trouble!

/me puts on flame resistant suit.