Tag: ESRB

[NM] Entertainment Software Association Leaks Spreadsheet of Journalist Personal Data


Today’s news comes to us from the world of high negligence. The Entertainment Software Association is currently making its way back up poop creek without a paddle as the news broke just a few days ago that a list of over two thousand content creators and journalists had been leaked via the ESA’s website. According to Youtube creator Sophia Narwitz, who broke the story, the list has been up for some time and contains the names of those invited to E3 2019.

MMO Fallout was able to get its hands on a copy of the list and confirmed that it contains names, titles, email addresses, physical addresses, and phone numbers of various journalists and Youtube content creators. While many of the journalist information is pointing to business/office addresses, a large portion of the list clearly includes home addresses down to the apartment number, and private phone numbers.

Presumably most of those on the list are aware that their information is now public on the internet, or will be shortly.

ESRB Changing Rating Labels


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Polygon.com is reporting that the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is in the process of making some small changes to how ratings will appear on games. The changes are nothing drastic, with a simple change in color scheme from white on black to black on white (pictured above). You can also see that the “content rated by” message has been removed and that the rating letters have been made larger.

The goal is to make the logo more visible in digital environments, particularly on the smaller screens of tablets and mobile phones. The ESRB doesn’t expect the transition on game boxes or store advertising to be a fast one, and are simply asking publishers to use the new symbols from this point onward.

(Source: Polygon)