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Game Room

Game Room

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Online arcade classics for XBLA and Windows Live

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Game Room only for kiddiegames?

Posted on Sunday, 31 January 2010 by Speed, source: Gamerbytes
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No Teen or Mature games
It looks like you can forget about Game Room ever having mature games for you.

In a move to make things easier and cheaper for publishers, Microsoft has decided to get the entire application rated, rather than getting each individual game rated. Of course that's a smart move in some way as you won't get leaks on f.i. the ESRB or PEGI site, but that also means you can only put up games with the same rating. And that rating currently is E.
"Games available for download within “Game Room” will carry either E or E10+ ratings", "We currently have no plans to feature titles of those [higher Teen and Mature] ratings".
Seeing as most old games from the 1990s are rated E or E10+ this shouldn't immediately pose a problem, but what about newer titles? Or games like Mortal Kombat? Unless Microsoft changes their vision or the ESRB/PEGI/Whatever does a periodical check, it looks like such games will never make it.
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