The ESRB Wants You
Well, not you specifically, but the ESRB is beginning to hunt for full-time game raters as their policy receives a major overhaul this April. Historically employing part-time folks to review game presentations submitted by developers and publishers, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board has decided to make the move to actually playing the games they rate before stamping a letter on the packaging.
Earlier this week an ad was posted at GamerDad, seeking out full-time raters in the New York area with experience with children (not Pictochat!), familiarity with video games, and strong communications skills, which effectively rules out anyone I've ever played Halo 2 against.
This most is perhaps partly in response to Senator Sam Brownback's intentions to bring back the Truth in Video Game Ratings Act, which would require the ESRB to play the games in order to rate them. In the post I wrote back on the 14th I said, "The only way this could work without creating a massive bottleneck of games trying to pass through the ESRB system, is if they hired actual gamers to sit on the board." Damn my psychic powers. It's a gift...and a curse.
ESRB Seeks Full-Time Raters [Gamasutra]
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