    pan european game information (pegi) is a european video game content rating system established to help european consumers make informed decisions on buying computer games with logos on games' boxes. it was developed by the interactive software federation of europe (isfe) and came into use in april 2003; it replaced many national age rating systems with a single european system. the pegi system is now used in more than thirty 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 eight content descriptors that advise the suitability and content of a game for a certain age range based on the games content. the age rating is not intended to indicate the difficulty of the game or the skill required to play it. on 30 july 2012, pegi became the sole system for age classification of video games in the united kingdom. as a result, games no longer have to be rated separately by the bbfc. products with pegi ratings are regularly available in countries outside europe, having been exported for language reasons (e.g. games in french in canada, or games in spanish and portuguese in the rest of latin america). ==age ratings== pegi has five age categories. {| class="wikitable" |- | 60px | 60px | 60px | 60px | 60px |} *3: suitable for ages 3 and older. may contain mild violence in an appropriate context for younger children, but neither bad language nor frightening content is allowed. *7: suitable for ages 7 and older. may contain mild or unrealisti
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