Screencap of the ESRB's iPhone app
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB)–the people who bring you parental advisory ratings on videogames–have released an iPhone app that lets users search for rating summaries on games. Here’s their pitch:
The main attraction of the app is that you can access rating summaries, which describe the activities involved in the game, giving some insight into why a game got a particular rating. The summaries, which aren’t on a game’s packaging, are only available for games released since July 2008.
The app is fairly bare-bones: It’s basically just a wrapper for the mobile version of the ESRB website, without much added functionality (no ability to save searches, or any kind of customization). Having said that, if you don’t know much about the video games your child is asking for this holiday season–or at any other time–then the ESRB app can provide you with a little more information. And it’s free.
The app is available now on iTunes.
