The videogame industry named a former educator to oversee a board charged with rating the 2,500 new titles that come to market each year.
The Interactive Digital Software Assn. named Arthur Pober, formerly principal of Hunter College Elementary School in New York, to direct the ratings board.
Responding to congressional pressure, the industry last month said it would rate all videogames destined for home use for the first time.
A ratings system should be in place by the holiday shopping season in December. Ratings criteria and symbols are under development.
Pober currently serves as vice president and director of the Children's Advertising Review unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus and has helped develop guidelines for children's advertising in Europe.
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