Tag archive: rating

John W. Byers and Georgios Zervas of Boston University as well as Michael Mitzenmacher of Harvard began researching the effect of daily deals on the overall average of a Yelp rating. The trio looked at both Groupon and LivingSocial relationships with businesses that were listed on Yelp and found that the typical rating was 10 percent lower when a business participated in a daily deal. In addition, the volume of reviews increase by about 44… Read More

Windows Phone 7 will be getting its much-needed “Mango” update this fall and it looks to add features on all fronts. In April, we detailed some new developer features Microsoft will be adding, and yesterday Redmond announced some new productivity features that will be added to the smartphone operating system. We've got the full list below. Facebook Chat: The Windows Dev Podcast announced this feature (and some others) this… Read More

After news that Manhunt 2 was banned outright in the United Kingdom and on its way to a commercially unfriendly AO rating in the U.S., publisher Take-Two Interactive announced Friday that it will delay the game’s release. Originally scheduled to come out on July 10, the game will now wait while Take-Two figures out what to do about the ratings. Whether or not the firestorm over the game’s release was intentional, it may… Read More

As yesterday's news about the change of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' rating settles across the land, major retail chains scrambled to pull the hacked version from their real and virtual store shelves. CNN/Money reported last night that Wal-Mart and Target, two of the nation's largest retailers, were both in the process of pulling the now "Adults Only" (AO) game. The Entertainment Software Rating Board changed the… Read More

“The policy is for violent and sexually explicit games that draw a mature or “M” rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Best Buy salespeople will be trained in how and when to check IDs, and could face dismissal if they're found to be selling violent games to children under age 17. Julie Tanner, Christian Brothers' corporate advocacy coordinator, said many retailers have adopted policies that… Read More

“The rating is designed to separate content which is genuinely appropriate for younger children from that which is more suited to children over the age of ten, and has been introduced after consulting with child development experts. The E10+ symbol will apply to games which have a certain degree of cartoon, fantasy or mild violence, mild bad language or minimal suggestive themes, according to the ESRB, and slots in between the… Read More