15 Facts About Gaming In 2015 That’ll Blow Your Mind

3. The Most Common Age Rating Is E For Everyone

Quick, someone tell outraged parents the world over - it's okay, hardly any games are gore-soaked deep-dives into circuses of broken bones and eye-popping fatalities.

Rather, quite the opposite.

Taken from the ESRB's system, the most dominant is E for Everyone with 41%, then T for Teen at 23%, the '10+' version of E at 21%, and finally M for Mature gets a paltry 14%. We tend to think of games as having high levels of violence both interacted and viewed passively - mostly thanks to sensationalised media articles and features - but the reality couldn't be farther from the truth.

Oh, and that last 1% is for AO (Adults Only) games, comprising just one game from last year (the nude-filled Ef: A Fairytale of the Two).