PEGI

PEGI ( PEG-ee), short for Pan-European Game Information, is a European video game content rating system established to help European consumers make informed decisions when buying video games or apps through the use of age recommendations and content descriptors. It was developed by the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (now Video Games Europe) and came into use in April 2003, replacing many national age rating systems with a single European system. The administration, monitoring and further development of the PEGI system are the responsibility of PEGI s.a., a not-for-profit company incorporated under Belgian law which pursues a social purpose. The PEGI system is now used in 36 countries and is based on a code of conduct, a set of rules to which every publisher using the PEGI system is contractually committed. PEGI self-regulation is composed by five age categories and nine content descriptors that advise the suitability of a game for a certain age range based on the game's content. The age rating is not intended to indicate the difficulty of the game or the skill required to play it.