PEGI Reveals 4 New Game Rating Categories That Now Includes NFTs, Loot Boxes, and More

PEGI Reveals 4 New Game Rating Categories That Now Includes NFTs, Loot Boxes, and More

From GameRant (Written by Cameron Swan) on | OpenCritic

The Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) ratings board has just announced four new classification categories. These new categories will encompass what PEGI believes to be "online interaction risks," which include the puchase of in-game content, the appearance of loot boxes, NFTs and daily quests, and unrestricted communication features.

Currently, PEGI has eight content descriptors that it uses use to determine a video game's age rating. These content descriptors include Violence, Bad Language, Fear, Gambling, Sex, Drugs, Discrimination, and the more recently added, In-Game Purchases. These descriptors are used to sort games into PEGI's five distinct age ratings, those being PEGI 3, 7, 12, 16, and 18.

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On March 12, 2026, PEGI announced that it would be expanding its age rating criteria with four new "interactive risk" categories. These new classifications are specifically centered around features related to online play and communication, as well as the purchasing of in-game content. Generally speaking, the more unrestricted a game's online features are, the higher its age rating will be. These four new PEGI categories...

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