Margaret Hodge, the United Kingdom culture minster, has invited consultation on whether ratings for video games should mimic those set for films by the British Board of Film Classification.
Currently, the board only considers extreme adult content like sexual material or violence when rating video games. All other games are rated under the Pan European Game Information system, or Pegi.
The consultation will result in the government establishing a new ratings system for games.
"The current system of classification comes from a time when video games were in their infancy," Hodge said. "In recent years there have been extraordinary developments in technology, with increasingly realistic gameplay and highly evolved storylines. At the same time more and more games are now accessed online."