Sunday, May 15, 2011

Video-game ratings: My strange, brief career as an obscenity watchdog.

Earlier this month, the Entertainment Software Rating Board?the video-game equivalent of the MPAA?announced that its ratings for online games would soon be determined via an automated questionnaire. Such news would reverberate little outside the industry had it not seemed like the latest evidence that humankind would soon be supplanted by its own doodads. (See, most notably, the trouncing of Jeopardy! hero Ken Jennings by a large, rectangular box.) For me, though, this announcement was personal. That's because I was lucky enough to intern at ESRB, sifting through video games in search of sexual, violent, and obscene content.

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