M-rated video games are raising more concerns Although mature-themed video games get the lion's share of the headlines, they haven't taken over the universe -- but they're slowly gaining.

April 3, 2006 -- -- The Entertainment Software Ratings Board, which determines the ratings for video and computer games, says that M-rated games are intended for persons 17 years or older. They're ...

The video game study authors, Thompson, Karen Tepichin, and Kevin Haninger, researchers at HSPH, used a random sample of 25% of the 147 video games for current consoles rated M by the ...

ARC guidelines have required since 2005 that trailers for M-rated games (or RP games anticipated to be M-rated) on publisher-controlled websites be displayed behind an age gate to help restrict ...

In the olden days, your first time playing a game rated M for Mature was a big deal. Maybe it was the fact that, like getting your driver's permit or being able to vote, the power to buy a game ...

Video game publisher Take Two Interactive, which distributes the world's best-selling game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," announced Wednesday that pursuant to a ratings board investigation into ...

Rated M games are rare to come across for the Wii, but they exist. It's a little silly to picture people playing serious, gory and brutal video games while shaking a Wii mote, but this was ...

The study found that most 7th and 8th graders (ages 12 to 14), including two-thirds of boys and more than one in four girls regularly played violent M-rated video games 'a lot in the past six months'.

Thre were 672 E-rated video games out there (as opposed to only 81 G-rated animated movies ever released to the theatres). Most of the games were from the late 90s.

Kimberly M. Thompson, Sc.D., and colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, played and analyzed M-rated video games in order to assess their content and compared it to the ESRB ...

The Interactive Digital Software Association is expected to introduce a new proposal to the FTC outlining its plans to address the marketing of Mature-rated games to persons under 17, according to ...

Although mature-themed video games get the lion’s share of the headlines, they haven’t taken over the universe — but they’re slowly gaining. Americans bought a record $6.2 billion in video ...