{"id":136838,"date":"2026-04-13T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-199823"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:00:00","slug":"indonesias-ratings-board-leaks-a-bunch-of-game-details-includes-007-first-light-castlevania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/13\/indonesias-ratings-board-leaks-a-bunch-of-game-details-includes-007-first-light-castlevania\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia&#8217;s Ratings Board Leaks A Bunch Of Game Details, Includes 007 First Light &amp; Castlevania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4afc7989e9586\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4afc7989e9586\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"4afc7989e9586\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"007 First Light and Castlevania: Belmont's Revenge\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4afc7989e9586\/007-first-light-and-castlevania-belmonts-revenge.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4afc7989e9586\/007-first-light-and-castlevania-belmonts-revenge.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"007 First Light and Castlevania: Belmont's Revenge\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A bunch of video game details and story spoilers have been leaked accidentally by the Indonesian Game Rating System (IGRS) from a number of upcoming releases, with the most-significant coming from IO Interactive&#8217;s 007 First Light, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/indonesias-ratings-board-just-leaked-huge-spoilers-for-007-last-light-and-other-unreleased-games\/\">VGC<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to VGC, story spoilers for upcoming action game are now out in the wild. This apparently includes over an hour of footage <em>and<\/em> what may well be the end of the game, too.<\/p>\n<p>The details have slipped through the cracks as reports say that security on the IGRS&#8217;s website isn&#8217;t exactly the best, and that someone outside was able to easily access private information. We obviously won&#8217;t be sharing any specific details here for any of the titles potentially affected.<\/p>\n<p>Other games that are apparently part of the leak include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/castlevania_belmonts_curse\">Castlevania: Belmont&#8217;s Curse<\/a>, the <strong>Assassin\u2019s Creed: Black Flag<\/strong> remake, and <strong>Echoes of Aincrad<\/strong> (Bandai Namco&#8217;s upcoming <strong>Sword Art Online<\/strong> title), though no footage has been found for these yet.<\/p>\n<p>Worst of all, thousands of email addresses linked to game developers may also have leaked. It&#8217;s not a great situation, and it sounds like the process has been a bit of a mess.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/nikopartners.com\/indonesia-game-rating-system-heavily-criticized-on-its-rollout\/\">Niko Partners<\/a> reported on criticism of the IGRS&#8217; implementation of age ratings on Steam, where it&#8217;s been labelling games incorrectly, including the ability to Refuse Classification and subsequently get the game banned.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-bsky-post\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/mcconnell.bsky.social\/post\/3mjf5qvdoss2i @ 2026-04-13T19:52:16+01:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:uv5wigyjjmfjd2iiywxbxjfy\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mjf5qvdoss2i\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreib75yt6dedz6npgqsirpuo2zmcuh76lk7b35rz3maug47agbyqoau\">\n<p lang=\"en\">So, I\u2019ve been in charge of getting our IGRS process and strategy going at Riot and it\u2019s been a journey. The way their system works is you fill out a brief survey which spits out a rating, and alongside that you provide a link to relevant footage and images for things like violence, language, sex etc<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:uv5wigyjjmfjd2iiywxbxjfy?ref_src=embed\">Nic McConnell (@mcconnell.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:uv5wigyjjmfjd2iiywxbxjfy\/post\/3mjf5qvdoss2i?ref_src=embed\">2026-04-13T15:13:44.030Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>And, quoting the article, Riot&#8217;s age rating manager Nic McConnell has shared some of the difficulties Riot has has with the system <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/mcconnell.bsky.social\/post\/3mjf5qvdoss2i\">on BlueSky<\/a>, mostly due to small staff numbers. &#8220;IGRS, best as I can tell, is going through each submission manually&#8230; It wouldn\u2019t blow my mind if some links got opened more broadly somehow during that\u2026ad hoc process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;the team at IGRS I think is small and being given a huge task without real resources. I was able to meet with them after harassing them on Instagram for months last year and my sense is it\u2019s a small group of good folks doing their best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of a blow to IO, as the game is only six weeks away from launch. Well, for all platforms except Switch 2, since the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/04\/007-first-light-shaken-by-delay-on-switch-2-now-releasing-after-other-consoles\">announced a delay to the game<\/a> on Nintendo&#8217;s console only.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Let us know what you think of the situation in the comments<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:199626,199704 @ 1776184632 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life A bunch of video game details and story spoilers have been leaked accidentally by the Indonesian Game Rating System (IGRS) from a number of upcoming releases, with the most-significant coming from IO Interactive&#8217;s 007 First Light, VGC reports. According to VGC, story spoilers for upcoming action game are now out in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}