Video Games With Loot Boxes Will Now Have a 16 Age Rating Across Europe as Part of Huge PEGI Shakeup

From July 2026, games with NFTs or blockchain-related mechanisms will all be PEGI 18.

Europe's game rating agency takes aim at in-app purchases, loot boxes, and 'unrestricted communication' with new 'interactive risk categories'

Credit: EA European game rating agency PEGI is about to make life more complicated for some game developers, as it plans to ...

Europe's PEGI will raise age ratings for games with loot boxes and microtransactions

Starting in June, the Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) age rating system, Europe's equivalent to the ESRB, will begin assigning PEGI-16 ratings to all games that sell ...
Esports.net

Games With Loot Boxes To Be Rated 16 In New Rule Starting in June 2026

The European video game rating system announced it will upgrade the ratings for games that contain loot boxes.
GameSpot

Loot Boxes And Battle Passes Are About To Impact Game Ratings More Harshly

Expect games with loot boxes to be rated PEGI 16 going forward. The latest set of changes coming to the Pan-European Games Information ( PEGI) rating system will impact how games that feature loot ...
Game Rant

Metaphor: ReFantazio Has One Surprising Thing in Common With P5 Tactica

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...
Gameranx

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Gets Ratings From ESRB and PEGI

Maybe we shouldn’t have been that worried about Metroid Prime 4: Beyond after all. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond received a T rating from the ESRB. As of this writing, the rating is still not yet live on ...
Game Rant

Balatro Dev Claps Back at PEGI Over Weird Rating

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...