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Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | 3 Comments »
Another, and hopefully the last, interview with Tanya Byron, author of last week's Byron Report, this one courtesy of MCV. Apparently Byron's son is more thankful than most that she ... Read more..Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | No Comments »
PEGI boss madman Patrice Chazerand has come to the ridiculous conclusion that people should stop thinking about competition between the BBFC and PEGI and focus on how the two ratings ... Read more..Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Politics, Trade, UK | 7 Comments »
Here. EA boss Keith Ramsdale still thinks PEGI's the best choice to rate UK games, despite confirmation that the BBFC will be rating all games meant for 12 year-olds and ... Read more..Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Politics, That was the news, UK | 6 Comments »
The Byron Report – a study commissioned by the UK Government to investigate games and internet use among the young in the UK – was delivered last week, saying almost ... Read more..Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | No Comments »
Tanya Byron, author of the Byron Report, wants opponents to videogaming to get with the programme. Her programme, specifically. In a response that could have been tailored for idiots like Anne ... Read more..Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | 2 Comments »
Tanya Byron, author of yesterday's Byron report, has moved to assure gamers that her recommendations - the main one of which was for a legally enforcable system of ratings for ... Read more..Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | No Comments »
Following news that the cost of Tanya Byron's quest to make parents aware of how games work in the UK is likely to be shouldered by the games industry itself, ... Read more..Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | No Comments »
According to this, the new BBFC games ratings confirmed today as part of the publication of the UK's Byron Report, won't come into force for two years. Hit the link for ... Read more..Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | 2 Comments »
Oh dear. This isn't going to go down too well. According to this, the cost of making parents more aware about videogaming - as recommended in this morning's Byron Report ... Read more..Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | 3 Comments »
David Cooke, director of the BBFC, has said he believes the British body is a better fit for rating games in the wake of this morning's Byron Report as it ... Read more..Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Nintendo, Platform holders, Politics, Sony, UK | No Comments »
Both Nintendo and SCEE have told videogaming247 that they will be making no comment on today's Byron Report. "There's no comment and no one will be offering comment - it's an ... Read more..Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | No Comments »
Loads of stuff here, in far more detail than the BBC report. This is the same article we quoted earlier. The report will recommend: New codes of practice to regulate social ... Read more..Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | 19 Comments »
According to this, Tanya Byron is pinning the biggest issues in games ratings on lack of understanding between generations. "The key finding is that we have this huge digital generational divide ... Read more..Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | 9 Comments »
Well, sort of. The BBC's got it, clearly. We're just waiting for the final draft, but you can see everything that's about to be announced here. Included is: The creation of ... Read more..Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | 13 Comments »
British newspaper the Guardian is reporting that Tanya Byron's report into games regulation in the UK this morning contains mention of lock-out codes for console games. The report, to be delivered ... Read more..Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | 20 Comments »
Two reports are claiming that the Byron Report will today recommend a film-style ratings system with recognisable symbols for the UK, as well as lowering the statutory requirement for game ... Read more..Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Politics, Violence in games | 2 Comments »
Says so here. Tanya Byron's report was commissioned by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown to look into violence and rating issues. The paper is thought to recommend that all games ... Read more..Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | No Comments »
Giving evidence to a Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee today, Matt Lambert, Microsoft's head of corporate affairs in the UK, said that the PEGI ratings system was better than ... Read more..Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in Politics, Trade, UK, Violence in games | No Comments »
The BBFC has admitted is doesn't know what Tanya Byron's going to recommend in her report to the government about UK games regulation next month, but has said that it's ... Read more..Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in Europe, Trade, UK, Violence in games | No Comments »
The Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE) isn't happy over reported plans to change UK games classifications, saying that bringing in a cinema-style system to handle regulation would be a ... Read more..Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in Politics, That was the news, UK, Violence in games | 4 Comments »
One story emerged last week that is to dominate the British games industry for months, and possibly years, to come. Tanya Byron, ex-TV psychologist and compiler of a report commissioned ... Read more..Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Politics | 3 Comments »
Citing a "Whitehall leak", a Scotland on Sunday report has suggested that PM Gordon Brown is readying to use the Byron report - a commissioned paper into videogames in the ... Read more..
