BBFC Launches Website To Educate Adults

The BBFC has unveiled a new website with the aim of educating parents and guardians about age ratings on games - an initiative that SPOnG fully supports.

David Cooke, director of the BBFC said the aim of the initiative was to put parents, "in a better position to make informed choices about what their children watch and play."

The site is called Parents BBFC and located at www.pbbfc.co.uk with a listing of every single game the BBFC has rated.

Or not, as is the case with the ongoing Manhunt 2 debacle…

Cooke adds that: "We know that parents come under a lot of pressure to buy the latest big selling title. So now when they are told by their offspring that ‘it’s only a game’, particularly if it’s rated ‘18’, they can look at the new website and see what the game contains and why it got the rating it did."

The site details why a game was given a particular classification, a plot synopsis and how the game's content may affect children.

Cooke added: “The well known and understood Consumer Advice – the short sentence about a film’s contents seen on posters, advertising and packaging – has proved both popular and helpful, but by its very nature cannot provide the sort of detailed information which parents would find useful.

"This website will take the guess work out of the family outing to the cinema and open up the world of video games for those who don’t know their PSP from their Wii.”

All unquestionably good stuff indeed, Mr Cooke. Now, can we just give Manhunt 2 that 18-rating that it deserves and move on please.