This is the press release that goes hand-in-hand with the post below.
Tuesday 8th July/…The UK video game industry today called on Government to support a single games age ratings system in Europe to protect children. ELSPA (the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association) Director General Paul Jackson said that the adoption of the PEGI (the Pan European Games Ratings Information) system was the single most important decision the UK industry has faced in a generation.
Speaking to MPs, civil servants and media at the Westminster Media Forum in Whitehall, Jackson said that the Government must play its part in recognising the importance of the decisions made in the wake of the Byron Review, the review of computer and video games carried out by Dr Tanya Byron.
UK government called upon to ?embrace? pan-European ratings system.
