ESRB

American  

abbreviation

1. Entertainment Software Rating Board: an organization that promotes the video game industry, and is tasked with evaluating the content of games in order to assign age-appropriateness ratings.

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Etymology

Origin of ESRB

First recorded in 1994

Example Sentences

The ESRB, which is comprised of the EU's central banks and prudential watchdogs, primarily focuses on financial risk but it broadened the scope of its analysis to the infrastructure used by banks and other institutions.

From Reuters

The ESRB’s move comes as the European Central Bank winds down its massive bond purchases and is widely expected to increase its interest rate after years of aggressive stimulus.

From Reuters

“We absolutely will not have A-O content,” Harrison said, referring to the ESRB’s moniker for the rare designation of a game as adult-only because of intense violence, pornography or real-money gambling.

From Reuters

Online gaming spaces are so deeply and pervasively out of control that the ESRB, the video gaming rating authority, simply refuses to rate online experiences.

From The Verge

In 1994, they banded together to institute their own system, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, or ESRB, which assigns video games a rating based in part on whether they include sexual or violent content.

From Washington Post