When music albums sell a million copies they go platinum but in the UK when a game sells a million copies, they get the ELSPA diamond sales award.

The latest game to receive said award is none other than Modern Warfare 2 which has managed to sell over 1 million copies for the Xbox 360 in the UK alone and over 600,000 copies for the PS3.

Modern Warfare 2 will join the ranks of other games such as New Super Mario Bros, Mario Kart Wii, Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 which have all also received the diamond sales award.

via thatvideogameblog

A while ago, we posted an article, which presented several ideas that could be used by the ESRB to improve the ratings system for video games. One of the suggestions was to implement a color coding system. While I’m sure that the head members of the ESRB were considering such suggestions, it seems that the ELSPA, which is the group that lobbies for game publishers in the U.K, has beat the ESRB to it. The new color code is supposed to be building off of the idea of traffic lights. The mature titles being red, the more intense games re marked as yellow, and the family friendly games are, obviously, green.

“The new rating system is in response to the UK government’s upcoming consultation into video game ratings on November 20 and to child psychologist Dr. Tanya Byron’s recommendations in her recently published report on the effects of video games on children. There is a system in place already which people know and understand and which in fact uses the traffic light colours, and it’s called the BBFC system.”

Tell us what you think, would you like to see a color code system set up for Game ratings in America? Leave a comment in the section below.