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                             regulatory issues in games

    ever since violence has been introduced into video games the governments around the world have been pushed into censoring these games and controlling who plays them.

  

     sometimes this proves to be problematic and their policies all over the world and the US. parents became worried with was their children was watching and doing with video games, and as the games become more realistic this has become more of an increasing problem.

   in 1993 after Mortal Kombat came out the senator of connecticut held meeting investigating the effects of violence on children, at the end of these meetings the ESA was formed which founded the ESRB who do all the ratings across the US.

this is all the ratings for the US and is also widely recognised across the world

 But in the uk we use the PEGI (Pan European Game Information) system which does all the ratings across Britain and Europe but before we used PEGI we used the BFFC system for rating games.

   PEGI is now the main rating system for Britain as the understand games more than the BFFC does as when they did this job the used movie censoring criteria instead of games but now that PEGI does this job its now and its fair for games developers and publishers as they are judging it by their knowledge on games not there knowledge on films.