Julian Eggebrecht, president of Factor 5 has a great editorial over at Eurogamer on how the ESRB handles rating games, or the lack thereof.

Julian Eggebrecht has said that games’ inability to include sexual content, satirical jokes and fantasy violence without degrees of censure are symptoms of a wider problem with ratings - and said that he didn’t feel the US Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) took the medium seriously as an artform.

Just how ludicrous is the ESRB rating system? You can’t get a teen rating with any display of splurting blood or chunks of organic material, yet you can set thousands of people on fire watching them run around in agony dying without a problem, just as long as you don’t have any visible blood…