Booking.com Travel Deals
Booking.com Hotels & Vacation Rentals-
Google Play Store - 11/05/2018
Advice for consumers
This app has been rated PEGI 3 and contains no pertinent content.
Brief outline of the game
that offers deals on a range of hotels, apartments, motels and holiday rentals around the world.
Content specific issues
Users can search for accommodation using terms for specific locations, lankmarks and hotel names. They can add filters for prices, deals and average scores. The app also includes maps and users can pay online.
Jurassic Park™ Builder
Ludia Inc.-
Google Play Store - 11/05/2018
Advice for consumers
This game has been rated PEGI 7 for mild violence against fantasy characters.
Brief outline of the game
This is a building simulater game based on the Jurassic Park franchise. Players can collect, grow and evolve various dinosaur species and develop research centres.
Content specific issues
The game features dinosaur characters battling each other, once they have grown into adults. When they strike each other, there are intesnse, loud rours and a brief mist of blood. They fall down after several strikes. The dinosaurs do not look cartoon-like.
Other issues
The game contains in-app purchases.
My Talking Angela
Outfit7-
Google Play Store - 19/06/2018
Advice for consumers
This game has been rated PEGI 3 and contains no pertinent content.
Brief outline of the game
This is a virtual pet simulation game that involves looking after and interacting with an anthropomorphic, cartoon cat character. Players can feed her, give her a bath, apply make-up to her and choose outfits and accessories for her.
Content specific issues
The game features simple, colourful animation and no pertinent content. There is a link to YouTube, which opens the device's installed YouTube app separately.
Other issues
The game contains in-app purchases and users can interact.
Official DVSA Theory Test Kit
TSO (The Stationery Office)-
Google Play Store - 19/06/2018
Advice for consumers
This app has been rated PEGI 3 and contains no pertinent content.
Brief outline of the game
This is a revision app that includes pictures, multiple choice questions and videos pertaining to the driving theory and hazard perception test.
Content specific issues
The app includes clips of hazards as someone is driving along a road. There are no crashes shown or any other pertinent content.
Hitman Sniper
Square Enix Ltd-
Google Play Store - 19/06/2018
Advice for consumers
This game has been rated PEGI 18 for extreme violence against human characters.
Brief outline of the game
This is a first person sniper game that involves shooting targeted criminals, collecting weapon parts and completing blueprints to unlock guns.
Content specific issues
The game allows the unseen shooter to zoom in on targeted criminals in various buildings in a city. When hit, they fall down and there is a splash of blood, which is sometimes on the ground. This rewards players with points. Innocent bystanders can also be hit, and this has no consequences for the player.
Other issues
The game contains in-app purchases.
Clue
Marmalade Game Studio-
Google Play Store - 19/06/2018
Advice for consumers
This game has been rated PEGI 7 for implied violence.
Brief outline of the game
This mystery game is based on a board game that involves working out the murderer, from guessing who has the murder weapon and which room the crime was commited in, using the process of elimination.
Content specific issues
Players must choose from six characters and receive a selection of cards featuring different characters, weapons and rooms. Characters are shown holding murder weapons next to the victim's corpse, therefore the violence is considered implied. The dead body is facing the floor and there is no visible blood.
Other issues
The game contains in-app purchases.
Scribblenauts Remix
Warner Bros. International Enterprises-
Google Play Store - 19/06/2018
Advice for consumers
This game has been rated PEGI 3 and contains mild fantasy violence.
Brief outline of the game
This emergent puzzle game involves typing a word to summon an object to defeat opponents and solve solutions.
Content specific issues
Players can opt for weapons, such as guns or shovels to be used against the characters, but when hit, they have no facial reaction and they fall into a hole and don't move. The characters are small and cartoonlike and are in a childlike setting.
Other issues
The game contains in-app purchases.
Wish - Shopping Made Fun
Wish Inc.-
Google Play Store - 02/08/2018
Advice for consumers
This app has been rated Parental Guidance Recommended (!), as it may contain strong language or references to sex, drugs or nudity.
Brief outline of the game
This mobile shopping app allows users to choose from over 100 million items at a discount, including clothes, accessories, home goods and electronics.
Content specific issues
The app allows users to search for and buy products from a number of manufacturers and brands. Users can post reviews and look at photos and videos of products. The app allows users to search for and buy sex toys, which feature images on the product page of people in suggestive poses. Products containing strong language can also be bought. Users can also browse for knives and other weapons.
musical.ly
musical.ly-
Google Play Store - 03/08/2018
Advice for consumers
This app has been rated Parental Guidance Recommended (!), as it contains user generated content, which may include strong language.
Brief outline of the game
This social networking app allows users to record themselves singing and dancing along to music and create videos, which can be shared with other users.
Content specific issues
Users can add free music clips and sound effects to videos. Playlists can be created, and songs may include strong language and references to sex, violence and drugs.
Other issues
The app contains in-app purchases and users can interact.
Uber
Uber Technologies, Inc.-
Google Play Store - 14/09/2018
Advice for consumers
This app has been rated PEGI 3 and contains no pertinent content.
Brief outline of the game
This app is used for booking a taxi driver and finding the nearest available drivers in the user's location.
Content specific issues
Users can pay through the app and it is used as a tool. There is no pertinent content.