News
Click on the links below to view the latest ESRB news announcements
and press releases.
If you are a member of the media, please contact:
Eliot Mizrachi
(917) 522-3235
2006-2008 Press Releases, Public Statements and Announcements
- 05/08/2008
ESRB Statement Regarding FTC Retail Mystery Shop Results [PDF]
- 04/25/2008
Entertainment Software Rating Board and National Institute on Media and the Family Remind Parents to Observe ESRB Ratings When Choosing Video Games for their Children [PDF]
- 04/21/2008
ESRB and PTA Launch New National Campaign To Educate Parents About Game Ratings, Parental Controls and Online Video Game Safety [PDF]
- 04/07/2008
ESRB Video Game Ratings Search "Widget" Unveiled: PTA & Public Officials Join ESRB To Raise Public Awareness [PDF] - 04/01/2008
ESRB Partners With Clearspring Technologies To Launch New Video Game Ratings Search Widget [PDF] - 12/19/2007
Texas AG Abbott Encourages Parents to Check Video Game Ratings [PDF]
- 12/07/2007
Delaware Lieutenant Governor John Carney and Representative Helene Keeley Launch PSA Campaign on Video Game Ratings [PDF]
- 12/04/2007
Oklahoma State Senator Glenn Coffee Launches PSA Campaign on Video Game Ratings [PDF]
- 12/04/2007
ESRB Statement Regarding the 2007 NIMF Mediawise Video Game Report Card [PDF]
- 11/02/2007
ESRB Statement Regarding Investigation into Manhunt 2 [PDF]
- 10/22/2007
Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire Featured in New ESRB PSA Campaign [PDF]
- 10/03/2007
Idaho Attorney General Wasden Joins ESRB for PSA Campaign on Video Game Ratings [PDF]
- 08/09/2007
ESRB and Rhode Island AG Patrick Lynch Launch Ratings Awareness Campaign [PDF]
- 06/04/2007
ESRB and Good Housekeeping Team Up to Inform Parents About Video Games and Ratings [PDF]
- 05/31/2007
ESRB And Ingram Entertainment Launch Initiative To Bolster Ratings Education And Enforcement Among Independent Retailers [PDF]
- 05/04/2007
Parents Increasingly Using ESRB Ratings to Restrict the Video Games Their Children Play [PDF]
- 04/12/2007
ESRB Statement on the FTC Report to Congress on the Marketing of Violent Entertainment to Children [PDF]
- 12/07/2006
Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joe Lieberman Join ESRB to Launch Nationwide Video Game Ratings TV PSA Campaign
- 11/15/2006
ESRB and Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Launch Nationwide Video Game Ratings Education Partnership [PDF] - 8/15/2006
ESRB and Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker Announce New PSA Campaign For Ratings Education [PDF] - 6/26/2006
ESRB and Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff Team Up For Ratings Education PSA Campaign - 6/21/2006
ESRB Retail Council (ERC) Establishes Unprecedented "Commitment To Parents" with National Video Game Retailers [PDF] - 6/14/2006
Testimony of ESRB President Patricia Vance Hearing Before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection - "Violent and Explicit Video Games: Informing Parents and Protecting Children" [PDF] - 6/6/2006
ESRB and Penny Arcade Team Up To Create New Gamer PSA Campaign [PDF] - 5/3/2006
ESRB Parent Advisory regarding rating change for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion [PDF] - 5/3/2006
ESRB Changes Rating for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion from Teen to Mature [PDF] - 4/8/2006
ESRB Announces Newly Enhanced, More User-Friendly Website - 4/3/2006
Statement by ESRB President Patricia E. Vance in response to the release of a Harvard School of Public Health study [PDF] - 3/29/2006
Testimony of ESRB President Patricia Vance Before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Hearing on State Regulation of Violent Video Games and the First Amendment [PDF] - 3/29/2006
Awareness, Use and Trust of ESRB Video Game Ratings Reach Historical High-Point Among Parents
