~Working in Industry (PEGI Age Rating System)~

PEGI is a self regulatory age rating system, which all content providers across the EU have to follow by in order to get their game sold through singing up to their code of conduct. NICAM and the UK’s Video Standards Council independently review and monitor submissions. The PEGI system itself is also overseen by a number of independent bodies. The PEGI age rating system was adopted in 2003.

Parents can use this PEGI age rating system to appropriately condition what their children can play and not play.

PEGI express is another PEGI age rating system dedicated to mobile games, which serve a short shelf life, in order to maximize the efficient of the age rating process and secure any profits for the development teams.

The PEGI age rating systems also have a large influence the the ways that these games can be advertised, in order to protect children.

PEGI 3

PEGI 3 is solely for fantasy content and some forms of cartoon violence. Games in this rating are suitable for all ages and players should be unable to distinguish any faces shown in the video game as real life and existing individuals. It should also contain no sounds or images which could scare a young player.

PEGI 7

PEGI 7 can potentially have some game content that could frighten children very mild, implicit or non-detailed violence should fall into this category.

PEGI 12

PEGI 12 can contain violence of a slightly more graphic nature towards fantasy characters and slightly unrealistic violence towards human-like characters. Sexual innuendo and posturing can be included within games of this rating. Bad language must be mild. Gambling how it is carried out in real life can be present in this age rating too.

PEGI 16

PEGI 16 is when a game's depiction of violence or sexual activity reaches a stage where it clearly resembles that of real-life. The use of bad language here can be a lot more extreme and the presence of drugs games of chance, alcohol an tobacco can also be present too.

PEGI 18

PEGI 18 is the adult classification and is the result of in-game violence becoming more 'gross' alongside motiveless killing and the harm of defenseless characters within the games make it this rating. The explicit glamorization or drugs and sex also makes the game a PEGI 18 rated game.