CERO (Japan's ESRB) has announced its revamped rating system. There are now two separate ratings for "M" type games. The difference? A title gets a "D" rating if it's made for gamers 17 years old, while the "Z" rating is for adults 18 and up. A clever way to brand games as "harmful."

The games currently calling the "Z" rating home include:

• Driv3r
• Max Payne
• killer7
• Grand Theft Auto Double Pack
• Grand Theft Auto Vice City
• Grand Theft Auto III
• The Getaway
• The Getaway: Black Monday
• Berserk
• Simple 2000 Vol. 61: The Oneechanbara
• Simple 2000 Vol. 80: The Oneechanpuru

The "D" rated games after the jump.

• Ninja Gaiden
• Dead or Alive 4
• Fable
• Metal Gear Solid 3
• Outlaw Volleyball
• Resident Evil 4
• The Matrix: Path of Neo
• God of War
• Dead to Rights
• Rumble Roses
• Shoubushi Densetsu Tetsuya Digest Volume 3 (a gambling game)
• Sukinamono wa Suki Dakara Shouganai!! (boy's love sim)

It's not because between the ages of 17 and 18, humans undergo such a tremendous emotional and physical change that this distinction was made. CERO's "Z" rating is Japanese for video games-as-porn. Brian Ashcraft

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