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| +3 | Video Game Guide for Parents: WhatTheyPlay |
 Not sure whether you should get a specific video game for your kids? Take a look at WhatTheyPlay before you buy! WhatTheyPlay is a videogames guide for parents. It provides parents with an inside scoop on video games with evaluations written by knowledgeable gamers — many of them parents themselves. WhatTheyPlay covers 16,000 games. You can search by type of game, child’s age, game console and its rating by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Parents can add comments about what they found troubling or exciting about games and how their children reacted to it. Close to 700 games have WhatTheyPlay staff member written descriptions. WhatTheyPlay staff play for hours to put the ratings in context so you don't have to! According to the NYT, ratings for a Final Fantasy Tactics game, cite a drug reference. It comes when a character talks about “the vile pursuit” of opium smuggling. According to the site's founder, it took 20 hours of game play to find that one drug reference. Zippers Comments
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