Why gaming classifications should be respected from the Office of the eSafety Commisioner

Attached to this week's newsletter is an article with some great information for parents, especially those who have family members who enjoy online gaming.

Following are two extracts from the article 

..an extraordinary amount of Primary School age children using Grand Theft Auto, the violent bestselling video game with an R+ rating. There are also some Primary School age children using Grand Theft Auto V which is an M-rated version also brimming with gang violence, nudity, extremely coarse language, and drug and alcohol abuse. 

Minecraft – PG – 8yrs+

Minecraft is a multiplatform sandbox adventure game. Players explore the world and use the building blocks of the game to customise that world to create nearly anything they can imagine. That also means other players can build whatever they can imagine as well, which could potentially lead to younger players coming across potentially offensive content while exploring random worlds online.  

For more on ratings the below article has some excellent information about ratings.