How mature is the Entertainment Software Rating Board's "Mature" rating? Apparently not mature enough for some consumer advocates, who today called on the ESRB to impose its "Adults Only" rating ...

Today, all major video game releases receive a rating from the ESRB (Electronic Software Rating Board). This non-profit, self-regulating body was established in 1994 by the Entertainment Software ...

To sum it up, the ESRB does not allow AO content to be displayed on product pages for games rated M and below, which is why Cho Dengeki Stryker had to be taken down.

In June of 2007, Rockstar Games' Manhunt 2 for the PlayStation 2, PSP, and Wii was slapped with an AO-for-Adults-Only from the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Given that Sony and Nintendo ...

Game Publisher Take-Two has recently confirmed that the ESRB has issued a preliminary rating of AO, or Adults Only, to both the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions of the controversial Manhunt 2.

To recap: if the ESRB in the US has rated a game Adults Only, it cannot be streamed. If the game is rated 18+ in another country it can be streamed so long as the ESRB hasn't given it an AO rating ...

ESRB Ratings: M/AO. After the game was effectively banned in the UK when it was refused classification by the BBFC, the ESRB assigned Manhunt 2 a rare AO rating almost solely because of its scenes ...

Because according to the ESRB’s ratings, ‘prolonged’ is the primary difference between an M (Mature) rated game and an AO (Adults Only) rated game in regards to violence.

The ESRB has asked the Chinese maker of a browser-based game to quit advertising it as rated Adults Only, reports GamesIndustry.biz, largely because the game has never been rated by the ESRB.

The ESRB website lists just 26 games rated AO. Almost all were slapped with the rating due to being adult-themed titles with "strong sexual content". Of the list, only the examples listed above ...

Extreme content in games can lead to an Adults Only rating, like with Hatred's mass murder simulation. The Punisher's graphic death scenes resulted in an AO rating, later revised to Mature. Titles ...

Rockstar has been getting a lot of attention today because the ESRB slapped Manhunt 2 with the scarlet letter(s) of the video game world, an AO rating.