Digital Britain might be bad news for file sharers, but it has some great news for the UK games industry. The Government aims to give developers, publishers and parents a helping hand by ousting BBFC games ratings in favour of the Pan European Game Information system, or PEGI. In addition, the Digital Britain report promises to “work with the industry to collect and review the evidence for a tax relief” for game makers.
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It’s caused controversy on Facebook . And now the innocuous game of Scrabble is causing ructions on the Nintendo DS. Tonya Carrington, 36, gave her eight year old son Ethan a copy of Scrabble for the handheld console to “help boost his vocabulary”. It has done, but not in the way she expected. The game comes with a PEGI 3+ rating, but Tonya and Ethan discovered it comes with a slew of rude words used by the computer-controlled characters.