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Pan European Game Information

Logo: PEGI, extrahiert von StG1990, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

European video game content rating system

PEGI ( PEG-ee), short for Pan-European Game Information, is a European video game content rating system established to help European consumers make informed decisions when buying video games or apps through the use of age recommendations and content descriptors. It was developed by the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (now Video Games Europe) and came into use in April 2003, replacing many national age rating systems with a single European system.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2003Founded1
  • HeadquartersBrussels1
  • Websitewww.pegi.info
  • Legal formpublic limited company with a social objective1

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PEGI ( PEG-ee), short for Pan-European Game Information, is a European video game content rating system established to help European consumers make informed decisions when buying video games or apps through the use of age recommendations and content descriptors. It was developed by the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (now Video Games Europe) and came into use in April 2003, replacing many national age rating systems with a single European system.2

The story

Founded by Video Games Europe in 2003.1

Products and brands

In 2013, PEGI co-founded the International Age Rating Coalition with USK and the ESRB. IARC aims to streamline the rating of digitally distributed games and apps by providing a single online system that produces age ratings for all participating regions. By filling out one questionnaire, a publisher instantaneously receives ratings from PEGI, USK, ESRB, ACB and others.

From Wikipedia’s article on PEGI, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

  • Video Games Europe

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded ELSPA classification system1
  2. Succeeded SELL video game rating system1
  3. Succeeded British Board of Film Classification1

Timeline

  1. 2003Founded Founded1

Sources

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