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		<title><![CDATA[ESRB and PTA Launch New National Campaign to Educate Parents About Game Ratings, Parental Controls and Online Video Game Safety]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Furthering their shared commitment to informing parents, Entertainment Software Rating Board ESRB and Parent Teacher Association PTA have launched a nationwide education campaign through which a new booklet, " A Parents Guide to Video Games, Parental Controls and Online Safety ," is being distributed to all 26,000 PTAs. The campaign...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Take-Two Reminds Parents to Check the ESRB Rating When Purchasing Games This Holiday Season]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_Dec_18/ai_n16912159]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTWO) today reminds parents, grandparents or anyone planning to give video or computer games this holiday season to utilize both parts of the Entertainment Software Rating Board ESRB rating system - age ratings and content descriptors - to help them choose age appropriate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joe Lieberman Join ESRB to Launch Nationwide Video Game Ratings TV PSA Campaign]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) today joined Entertainment Software Rating Board ESRB president Patricia Vance on Capitol Hill to launch a new nationwide television PSA campaign that encourages parents to use the video game ratings when buying games for their children.  Best Buy president...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PTA and ESRB Launch Nationwide Video Game Ratings Education Partnership]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200611/ai_n16839943]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Furthering their shared commitment to educating parents about video games, the Parent Teacher Association PTA and Entertainment Software Rating Board ESRB are launching a nationwide video game ratings education campaign that will distribute 1.3 million brochures to 26,000 PTAs nationwide. The campaign will encourage and enable state and local PTAs...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ESRB Retail Council (ERC) Establishes Unprecedented "Commitment to Parents" With National Video Game Retailers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200606/ai_n16487696]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Major retailers accounting for approximately 80% of computer and video game sales today joined with the Entertainment Software Rating Board ESRB in announcing their adoption of an unprecedented commitment aimed at enhancing compliance with store enforcement policies regarding the sale of Mature-rated video games, providing parents with the ability to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Awareness, Use and Trust of ESRB Video Game Ratings Reach Historical High-Point Among Parents]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200603/ai_n16114097]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[National research measuring parental awareness and use of the ratings for computer and video games shows that 83% of American parents of children who play video games are aware of the ESRB ratings, and 74% use them regularly when buying games for their families according to a study commissioned annually...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GTA: soon gone.(VIDBITS)(Entertainment Software Rating Board bans Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)(Brief Article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Moving quickly to try to douse a political firestorm touched off  by a modification that unlocked steamy hidden content in Grand Theft  Auto: San Andreas, the ESRB last week revoked the game's Mature M  rating and asked publisher Rockstar Games to    * Moving...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Best Buy Removes ''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'' From All Stores]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS -- Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY): In compliance with our policy not to carry adult-only AO games, Best Buy is immediately taking steps to remove all copies of the now AO-rated game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" from all of our North American stores. Earlier today, the ESRB adjusted...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Parents approve of ratings, but more enforcement needed.(Videogames)(Brief Article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5057/is_200312/ai_n18417195]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[* As the holiday buying season heats up, so too does the recurring  look at violence in videogames. Last week, both the Entertainment  Software Ratings Board and a media watchdog group weighed in on the  subject.       The ESRB announced an independen...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[D.C. Round three: Retail; 'Based on the kinds of questions [the FTC is] asking, we expect a lot more focus on retail compliance in the next report,' says Sean Bersell of the VSDA. (Observations and Opinions).(Federal Trade Commission)(Brief Article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--With presidential politics behind us for a while, and  in the wake of the real-world violence of Sept. 11, Washington's  attention to the make-believe world of media violence appeared to  wander. But it hasn't gone away.       This summer,   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Violent games on Georgia's mind. (Videogames).(Brief Article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5057/is_200202/ai_n18420363]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Georgia state legislators are seeking to punish retailers who  violate the Entertainment Software Rating Board ratings.       The Violent Video Game Protection Act, introduced Feb. 13, aims to  make it a misdemeanor offense to "sell, tent or othe    Georgia state...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Inside the ratings game.(Brief Article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ratings board tinkers to stay in step with technology       NEWYORK--The videogame industry came through the recent Federal  Trade Commission marketing-to-kids firestorm virtually unscathed, thanks  in large part to the self-regulating, voluntary rati    Ratings board tinkers to stay in step...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[D.C. lawmakers target Hollywood, music and games.(federal government threatens to investigate marketing practices of the motion picture, music and videogame industries which use violence to attract young audiences)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spurred by the recent killings at a Colorado high school, the  federal government is threatening to go after the movie, music and  videogame industries the way it has tobacco.       Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said last  w  ...]]></description>
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