{"id":37652,"date":"2023-12-20T09:32:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/epic-games-opens-doors-to-blockchain-games-despite-adult-ratings-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T09:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:32:06","slug":"epic-games-opens-doors-to-blockchain-games-despite-adult-ratings-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/epic-games-opens-doors-to-blockchain-games-despite-adult-ratings-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games opens doors to blockchain games despite adult ratings | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Blockchain games are making a comeback on the Epic Games Store marketplace including the ones with adult-only ratings.<\/p>\n<p>While the store typically prohibits games labelled as &#8220;Adults Only&#8221; by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), which usually indicates excessive nudity or violence, a recent announcement states that blockchain games falling into the AO category solely because of their blockchain integration will be exempt from this restriction.<\/p>\n<p>Epic Games Store has made changes to its content policy to accommodate such blockchain-based games. It&#8217;s important to note that policies prohibiting content such as pornography, gambling, and hate speech remain in effect, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/12\/19\/24008602\/epic-games-store-adults-only-blockchain-games\" target=\"_blank\">Epic Games<\/a> clarifies that blockchain games cannot involve gambling activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2450617\/1\" target=\"_blank\"> Alphabet to limit election queries Bard and AI-based search can answer<\/a><\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EpicGames\/status\/1737200788622225625\">\n<blockquote align=\"center\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udce3 Heads up: Gods Unchained and Striker Manager 3 have returned to the Store after a change in our content policy regarding ratings for blockchain-based games. Learn more: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RQGGzWGeG8\">https:\/\/t.co\/RQGGzWGeG8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EpicGames\/status\/1737200788622225625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a result of this policy change, games like Gods Unchained and Striker Manager 3, which were previously removed from the Epic Games Store due to their AO rating, have now been reinstated in the store.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v5.0&#038;appId=419051588770002&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain games are making a comeback on the Epic Games Store marketplace including the ones with adult-only ratings. While the store typically prohibits games labelled as &#8220;Adults Only&#8221; by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), which usually indicates excessive nudity or violence, a recent announcement states that blockchain games falling into the AO category solely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/epic1703055937-0\/epic1703055937-0.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}