Patricia Vance
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An Open Letter From the ESRB to Utah's Parents and Leaders [Letter To The Editor]...imposing fines on video game retailers and movie theaters that provide M- or R-rated products to minors, ESRB President Patricia Vance has written a letter. Here, in it's entirety, is Vance's open letter to Utah's Parents and Leaders: In this article: Entertainment Software Rating Board, Utah, Patricia Vance, Federal Trade Commission, Safe harbor, and Best interests |
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Wired: GeekDad | March 18, 2009
The ESRB: Better Than Costly Legislation
...observes the currently in-place ratings system and its inherent age restrictions.) ESRB president Patricia Vance points this out in an open letter stating: While there are a number of odd caveats within this new law - sending an offending...
In this article: Entertainment Software Rating Board, God, Utah, Cancer, Beneficiary, Small government, Waste, and Jesus
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Kotaku | September 17, 2009
PSPgo Has ESRB Ratings Packed Right In [Esrb Ratings]
...if they never actually touch the system themselves, and what are the chances of that? ESRB president Patricia Vance discusses the PSPgo's built-in ESRB ratings guide over at the PlayStation Blog, praising it as a "straight-forward and...
In this article: ESRB, PlayStation, Gran Turismo series, and Sony
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Ars Technica | March 13, 2009
Utah passes pointless, worthless underage game sales bill
...the Utah Senate has passed it with a 25-3 vote. Patricia Vance, the President of the ESRB, passed Ars an open letter to the parents and leaders of Utah that detailed the proposed legislation. "While the intent of this legislation would be to...
In this article: Utah, Utah Senate, ESRB, Illinois, Jon M. Huntsman Jr., and Michigan
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Gamedaily Biz | June 11, 2009
ESRB Ratings 'No-Brainer' for App Store, says Vance
...openly suggesting that certain games in the App Store should have ratings. ESRB president Patricia Vance mirrored those remarks in a statement to Kotaku. "ESRB ratings empower parents to do their job," said Vance. "Considering the fact...
In this article: ESRB, App Store, Iphone, Apple, Mario, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
ESRB re-rating of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
...inaccessible during normal play made no difference in the decision. ESRB policy had been "absolutely clear" since the Hot Coffee controversy, Patricia Vance told a reporter. Publishers were told that they could not leave unfinished or other...
In this article: ESRB, Bethesda, Leland Yee, Hot Coffee minigame controversy, Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and Take-Two Interactive
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ESRB's Patricia Vance Urges Utah to Rethink Legislation
...wants to avoid that. by David Radd on Friday, March 06, 2009 Today, ESRB President Patricia Vance released an open letter addressed "to Utah's Parents and Leaders." In the contents of said letter she talks about the video game...
In this article: ESRB, Utah, FTC, and Best interests
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CNET News.com | June 10, 2009
Will Apple offer ratings for iPhone games?
...said nothing about games. "Adding ESRB ratings to the controls (Apple) already plans to offer," Vance told Kotaku, "would give parents the ability to exert control over the games their children play as well." The Entertainment Software...
In this article: Apple, Iphone, ESRB, App Store, Palm Pre, Google, French Constitutional Council, Iphone OS, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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Joystiq | April 17, 2008
How the ESRB handles downloadable content - Joystiq
...downloads on the basis of ESRB rating. Patricia Vance wants to change ESRB's role from providing information about a game's content, to controlling what content a publisher can or can't distribute. This is completely out of line. Apr 17th...
In this article: ESRB, Ratatouille, Filed, Series of tubes, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Sony PlayStation 3
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Study: Fewer under-17 kids buying 'M'-rated games Gaming and Culture - CNET News
...behind the counter. It is, however, a bit surprising that Wal-Mart fared so well. In response, ESRB president Patricia Vance issued a statement Thursday. "Video game retailers have clearly stepped up their efforts to enforce their store...
In this article: Federal Trade Commission, Entertainment Software Rating Board, GameStop, CNET News, Wal-Mart, Grand Theft Auto IV, Bejeweled, and Tetris
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Patricia (Pat) Vance was appointed the third president of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) in November 2002, replacing interim president, Marc Szafran. Vance is responsible for overseeing and enforcing the computer and video game industry's self-regulatory practices. This includes ensuring that video game consumers and parents have effective tools with which to make educated purchase decisions.
Upon taking the helm of the ESRB, Vance oversaw a re-tooling of the organization which kept it from remaining in the crosshairs of anti-games legislators, if only for a brief period of time. She is best known due to the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas debacle, where the publisher of the game failed to submit all of the content programmed into the product. The ESRB, funded by publishers, came under attack and began defending the process and system before all of the facts were in. The game was quickly re-rated from "M" to "AO" and retailers were notified via their trade association, the IEMA - who themselves were all away at their annual trade show, the Executive Summit, compounding the problem logistically. The incident became a flashpoint around which critics of the industry and the ratings board rallied and legislators across the country
began introducing anti-games legislation.
Before joining the ESRB, Vance spent 18 years at Disney/ABC, with responsibility for leveraging ABC properties in the development and management of a broad range of new media and market initiatives. These initiatives included the Internet (ABC.com, ABCNEWS.com, Oscar.com, Oprah.com), interactive entertainment and educational software publishing (Creative Wonders, ABC Interactive, OT Sports, ABC News Interactive), direct response videocassette marketing, in-flight entertainment, home video and cable television.
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