Respawn - Gathering of Game Developers 2016

When you made a game or app you want to offer it to the broadest audience possible. The regional legislations and First Party policies often required developers to attain separate Age Ratings for all regions of the world, a task that is not only time consuming but foremost rather expensive especially for indie game devs. IARC has been designed to change that.

The USK is a founding member of IARC, the International Age Rating Coalition (www.globalratings.com) that has introduced a fully-automated, easy-to-use questionnaire that is docked into the on-boarding process of participating storefronts. Once submitted, Age Ratings and content descriptors are generated for all regions and automatically displayed on the products' download page. The best part: it's completely free.

As for now, IARC includes ratings from ESRB (The Americas), PEGI (Europe), USK (Germany), ClassInd (Brazil) and ACB (Australia), while providing generic IARC ratings for the rest of the world - with more to be announced. After the Mozilla Marketplace, Google Play, the Nintendo eShop and the Microsoft Store, PSN and XBL are already confirmed for incorporating the award-winning system in the very near future, with even more storefronts already on the horizon.