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The Ukrainian Esports Federation (UESF) joined the educational campaign of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and the Diia.Defense platform, aimed at increasing digital safety for teenagers. The initiative is timed to the start of the new academic year.
UESF joined the distribution of the educational guide “Giena Higiiena about PEGI: how to understand age ratings in online games”.
The material helps teenagers and parents better navigate age restrictions and content features in computer games.
The guide explains how the PEGI system works, used in more than 35 countries, including Ukraine. Age ratings 3, 7, 12, 16 or 18 years indicate not the difficulty of a game, but how its content corresponds to a particular age category.
Next to the age number, there may be special pictograms that warn about potentially dangerous or sensitive content. These include violence, profanity, real-money purchases, pressure mechanics, or the ability to communicate with other users.
Parents can check information about a specific game using the free PEGI App. The application contains a database of games, filters, and step-by-step instructions for setting up parental controls.
A separate campaign material “Giena Higiiena goes live: online safety in gaming” is dedicated to the risks teenagers may encounter while using gaming platforms. It discusses fake invitations to test games, offers of “free” skins and in-game currency, phishing messages from supposedly customer support, harassment in chats, grooming, and blackmail with personal photos or deepfakes.
UESF reported that they are separately working on integrating Ukrainian language into the PEGI App.
“Millions of teenagers spend time daily in online games, and among the tasks of the federation is to make this environment understandable and safe for them and for their parents. We are ready to continue to connect expertise to such initiatives, including supporting the localization of the PEGI App into Ukrainian, so that this tool is accessible to every Ukrainian family in their native language,” – said UESF president Maksym Kryppa.
The full guide “Giena Higiiena about PEGI” is available on the Diia.Osvita platform.
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