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According to a memo forwarded to Next-Gen editors (by a mystery publisher) you can thank the ESRB’s recent policy change for putting the damper on one of your favorite hobbies — scouring their database for clues about games that publishers don’t want you to know about yet.<\/p>

Before, publishers had to cross their fingers that the savvy Internet Matlocks among us<\/a> would somehow overlook their submissions to the ratings board. Now, online forms will have an embargo option for publishers to choose the date that a particular title is uploaded to the ESRB’s website. However, failure to check that part of the form defaults in the disclosure of information that we’ve come to love and expect:<\/p>

“Unless there are specific concerns regarding premature disclosure of a title, we expect this field to be left blank…While we recognize some publishers have concerns regarding earlier-than-desired ‘announcements’ of product on our website, the ESRB system will not work for consumers if publishers arbitrarily select dates bearing no reasonable relationship to consumer interest in the product.” <\/p>

Although marketing departments spanning the entire industry are smiling right now, we fully trust in human nature, and the power of the Internet. Something tells us that Rumortoid<\/a> won’t be leaving the premises anytime soon. <\/p>

[Via Next-Gen<\/a> — Thanks 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