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Bionic Commando: Rearmed Rated M

Hey kids! Better get a parent's permission before purchasing Capcom's Bionic Commando: Rearmed for Xbox Live Arcade or PlayStation 3! Various ratings organizations have made the call, and the game has gotten mature ratings all around, due to violence and such. The announcement is being made via the Bionic Commando website in the form of a cute little faux in-game communique, which makes references to other Capcom titles like Lost Planet and Dead Rising. Just remember kids, if your parents give you any grief, the game is all about making Hitler's head explode, and if they don't support that sort of thing they are goose-stepping, tiny-mustache wearing Nazi supporters.

Bionic Commando Comminucator [Official Site via Videogaming247]

9:40 AM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Mike Fahey
4,350 views, 67 comments

Latest by diodegrey: rating bionic commando M is like hating freedom. if this game gets an M rating the terrorists win. more »

esrb

Mature Games Sell Very Well On Consoles

Not so long ago, we ran some ESRB figures revealing that games rated 'M' for Mature are only a very small portion of that which developers released in 2007. However, a new report in which Next Generation compiled some sales statistics from the NPD Group shows us that even though M-rated titles may be few and far between, they sell quite well when compared to their peers with less extreme content. Here you can see how well M-rated titles sold in a boom from 2006 to 2007 (driven by a few AAA titles, for sure).

Hit the jump and I'll show you what all that means when compared to the actual amount M-rated games were released in 2007.

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12:00 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Mark Wilson
4,510 views, 39 comments

Latest by fearing: Ugh, I wonder how similiar this ratio of sales is to the ratio of games actually made with these ratings. more »

esrb

Mature Games Are Down 50% Since 2005

For as violent a reputation as has been bestowed upon the video game industry, 'M' rated games only make a small percentage of their total numbers and, according to the ESRB, this small percentage is actually down 50% since 2005. Back then, 12% of titles were rated M. And in 2006, that figure was already down to 8%. In 2007, a year in which the ESRB rated 1,563 games, 'M' rated games only accounted for 6% of the titles.

More neat stats from the ESRB in 2007:

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11:40 AM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Mark Wilson
4,544 views, 112 comments

Latest by chiefpoopingpants: @Mr. SiThNiNjA: So Guitar hero should be tracked as an accessory? Wiiplay is a game not an accessory. Deal with it. more »

tigrs

TIGRS Game Ratings: Tantalizing Overhaul

TIGRS is the on your honor, give a penny take a headshot ratings system for independent game developers. And just recently, their designations were revamped in full emoticon style. From TIGRS:
Over a year in the making, the design was tested with many gaming and non-gaming audiences for appeal, attractiveness, and its ability to communicate clearly what the viewer can expect to find in the game.
I'm not sold. The Teen rating reeks of perverted, candy-toting uncle, while the Adult graphic screams, "I'll grab the eggs and you steal the whip-its." More »

6:00 PM on Wed Mar 14 2007
By Mark Wilson
1,454 views, 31 comments

Latest by CyberSkull: Fount it. http://www.tigrs.org more »

grand theft auto: vice city stories

Denver Group Seeks to Ban Mature Game Ads

Remember when I posted about that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories ad on Denver's local train months back? More »

3:35 PM on Wed Feb 28 2007
By Brian Crecente
566 views, 24 comments

Latest by Handles25: "Feh, RTD isnt that bad, at least not the trains and busses that I take." I would bet anything the 15 is not a bus you take. more »

girls in games

Grand Theft Auto: Elementary School

Dan, from tadpole-oriented gameblog GameFam, was shocked and appalled after witnessing the following scene at a local fleamarket: More »

4:40 PM on Wed Jun 21 2006
By egauger
787 views, 10 comments

Latest by Ilia Chentsov: Yeah, I've heard about a (grand)mother who thought she bought her child a nice clean game about St. Andrew the apostle. more »

monkey

Penny Arcade's ESRB Ads Unveiled

First a warning, I'm a huge PA fanboy. That being said, the thrust of these new ESRB ads by Penny Arcade are completly lost on me.

There's nothing wrong with the writing, and the art is pure Penny Arcade, but I'm not sure what exactly the Electronic Software Ratings Board is hoping to accomplish with them. Here's the ESRB's take on their goal:
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8:00 PM on Tue Jun 6 2006
By Brian Crecente
625 views, 8 comments

Latest by Tenno: i remember the look of sheer hatred i raised on a seven year old kids face when, upon being asked if GTA was an ok game for her son, i told her exactly what was going on in it, and this was WAY before Hot Coffee. she seemed suprised by more »

esrb

Warning, Mature-Rated Games Contain Mature Content

In a boggling bit of news, a study has concluded that a big black "M" on the front of a game may not be enough of a clue that the game contains violence, nudity, or other deliciously unsavory content. The games apparently don't go into quite as many details as they might, and Kimberly Thompson, the study's author, is concerned that parents might take that as a sign that the game is just peachy for kids, saying "Parents should not interpret the absence of a content descriptor to mean the absence of content." More »

6:40 PM on Mon Apr 3 2006
By kotaku.com
669 views, 4 comments

Latest by Erzengel: please, tell me is a joke. more »