It just seems so damn flip-flopish, to go from supporting a press release that calls on the gaming industry to stop release games that encourage kids to become cannibals (in Lieberman's case), or denouncing the ESRB as "broken" (in Clinton's case), to actively partnering with the ESRB to help educate parents.

I mean I should be happy and all, but it seems more like a marriage of convenience than any change of policy. NIMF pulled the rug out from under their "teh retailers are teh evil!" leanings, so the only way to get anything done now is to do these PSAs. I mean your call to slap around retailers hardly has support if a national parent watchdog group drops the whole "retailers are bad" deal and starts questioning whether parents truly care about what their kids are watching/playing...

I think its a smart move. Game legislation fails at every turn. Clinton & Lieberman finally got that if they want to change what they do not like about the Game Industry they are going to need to do it with the help of the the Game Industry.

It is a shame it took this long for the idea to get through those thick skulls.

I think it's good that now maybe, just maybe, senators will stop attacking the video game industry. I have mostly bashed Jack Thompson because, from what I've seen on other web sites, I get the impression that Jack Thompson is keeping this fight against video games alive. It doesn't make sense that right now America is at war with Iraq and other problems are happening around the world, yet they keep attacking video games on Jack Thompson's whims. Washington D.C. has no place in the video game industry and they need to stop attacking the video game industry just because Jack Thompson wants them to.

@ Brokenscope

I admit it. Jack Thompson didn't start the controversy against the video game industry. That was Joe Lieberman and Herb Kohl, who started complaining about the violence in Mortal Kombat. However, Joe Lieberman and Herb Kohl have, for the most part, moved on. They really don't make attacking the video game industry their carreer. When I read about controversy in video games, the name Jack Thompson keeps coming up. He's the one who keeps it going.

It's bigger than Jack Thompson, but it would probably end if Jack Thompson gave it up because, as I said up there, many more important things are going on in the world and the government wouldn't care about video games if Jack Thompson didn't keep saying that these games are murder simulators and that they're destroying the minds of young people. If he stopped with all that garbage, then the government would pay attention to more important issues and the whole video game issue would fade into the past. In conclusion,while he didn't start it, he is the most vigorous enemy of video games out there.

People will be screaming about it forever, just like they scream about TV.