Wine About It!

Dear Capcom,

I was playing Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth today, when I noticed that the passengers in Episode 2 were drinking grape juice out of wine glasses and wine bottles. Now, your game is rated T by the ESRB here in the States. Really now? Your games are chock full of murders, assaults, and kidnappings, yet you localized "wine" as "grape juice"?

Really now. Gamers are smarter than that. We're much more mature about such things than you think. Just because we see "wine" involved in a video game does not mean that we're going to want to go out and drink it (though I could go for some sparkling red grape juice about now...) after playing it. Teens are perfectly capable on making intelligent choices as well as separating fiction from reality. Give them a little credit.

Unless it's all just a jab at 4Kids, in which case, please disregard.

Lulz @ 1:30

ESRB Gives Up and Plays Nice With Journalists

Video game journalists are always searching for sources to break stories before anyone else, especially in the online markets. Last year, several stories broke due to leaks at the ESRB's website. Most of these leaks revealed revamps of older games, which has been pretty exciting for all. Nevertheless, that's another post.

For a while, the ESRB attempted to tighten website security in order to prevent such leaks from happening. Now it seems that they've just given up because I've been getting weekly press releases in my email with the list of new ESRB listings. See, ESRB? *pat pat* Isn't it so much better when you just play along as give us what we want? There, there...

So yeah, Dino Crisis and two Resident Evil games are coming back via PSN. There's your leaked ESRB ratings news of the week.