It's still unclear who should rate games in the UK By: Calin Ciabai, Games Editor The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) supports the Pan European Games Ratings Information rating systems and not the homebrew British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), as some might think should be the case. Thus, since two companies with different opinions on how things should be done and lots of money involved, the BBFC and ELSPA keep fighting against one another. Using doctor Tanya Byron's review as a cover, the ELSPA keeps asking the UK government to adopt the PEGI rating system since only they "fully assess all games content," being specifically designed for interactive content (as its name suggests, the BBFC's main domain are movies). Also, the association believes that having a unique rating system...
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