Just remember rule number 1: NEVER PLAY GAMES WITH GIRLS.

They could end up in prison, and then you might feel just a smidge guilty for a minute or two before going back to playing your games.

How come other countries are conserned with game addiction while the US and UK are about violence and sex?

Here is how it goes down in my eyes:

THE POMINATOR CHART OF WHAT NATIONS ARE SCARED OF IN VIDEOGAMES:

US: Sex, Swearing and real life
UK: Gratuitous violence, dangerous driving and real life
Germany: Things that acknowledge how screwed up their past was
France: Games which don't have a "surrender" feature (JOKING!)
Eastern Europe-everywhere short of Russia: Addiction to videogames
Russia: people not knowing the difference between real life and games
Australia: Skating, gratuitous sex, gratuitous violence and gratuitous drugs
Japan: Whales seeking revenge
Lyndon Larouchia: Everything- it all tells the youth of the country- because only children play videogames- to go and kill him, they network over myspace and other devil network sites, they buy their guns and drugs from the evil British empire, where MI5 gives them instructions on where he lives and when he sleeps, then people will go and kill him in the real world!!!

Personally I don't think that kids should be playing videogames rated 18, some may be appropriate for children younger than 18, but I would never let my sister play Condemned or Saints row!

I would like it if parents would be more proactive in deciding responsibly whether their children should be playing a game called "Manhunt 2- super ultra bloody gory edition", maybe the parent may enjoy it if they play videogames, but they could take the initiative to lay down and enforce some actual rules and regulations on how their children play videogames.

It is the responsibility of the individual parent, not the government or anyone else, parents have to take the initiative if they are going to raise a good child.

Yes, I know so many people who like to rack up a line or 2 just so they can keep on playing.

Oh wait, no I don't.

@Ken

There is much truth to what you say and to the following:

"Girl Gamers: More sought after than the Ark of the Covenant."

@ShadowMagus

yes you do.

@Simon

Ubisoft is a French company, and they have a studio in Montreal. Why shouldn't they print them in both languages?

"Some gamers drift into substance abuse, especially stimulants — from caffeine to cocaine — that allow them to remain awake for extended periods of time."
Hell, I have an underground drug ring just so I can pay for MMO fees!

"It also gives the child a false sense of independence in watching what he or she desires or surfing sites without supervision."
And we know your policy about independence and personal freedom...

"[Studies] exposed addicts’ tendency toward ignoring responsibilities, lagging in studies, becoming introverts and sometimes having serious behavioral disorder. Some gamers drift into substance abuse, especially stimulants — from caffeine to cocaine — that allow them to remain awake for extended periods of time."

Nothing new there. Kids have been lagging in studies, becoming introverts, and having serious behavioral disorders since the invention of school.

Oh no. The games industry might lose 0.0001% of it's total net revenue from the arabic world. Excuse me whilst I cry myself to sleep.


That smell? That's the smell of the Sacasmomiter having melted.

I find it funny that they are upset about violent video games. In there Qur'an it says to kill all the Christians and the Jews. And if anyone leaves the muslim faith you kill him as well. Well I should not say that. Its not politically correct and someone might get the idea that they are not a peaceful religion. So just ignore what I just said, you will anyway.

I've said it once, I'll say it again......

At some point, my people need to understand there are quite a few other things in the Middle East far more threatening than a video game.

I love it.

An American woman was recently jailed for sitting next a male co-worker in a Starbucks. They publicly behead gay people in their country. Rape victims are subjected to lashings for "adultery." Yet Saudi Arabia is concerned with computer generated violence. Perhaps they should perfect the workings of their own inferior culture.

These guys in the Arab world have serious human rights issues to fix, and all they can think of are the vidja games. . .

"I find it funny that they are upset about violent video games. In there Qur’an it says to kill all the Christians and the Jews. And if anyone leaves the muslim faith you kill him as well. Well I should not say that. Its not politically correct and someone might get the idea that they are not a peaceful religion. So just ignore what I just said, you will anyway."
You're thinking of the wrong Quran my friend.

"You’re thinking of the wrong Quran my friend"

Really? I am? hmmm... Well this was the one I was thinking about.


“To participate in Jihad in Allah's cause” (Al Bukhari vol. 1:25)

Sura 2:187-189 “And kill them wherever ye shall find them, and eject them from whatever place they have ejected you; for civil discord is worse than carnage:.....

Sura 9:5: “And when the sacred months are passed, kill those who join other gods with God wherever ye shall find them; and seize them, besiege them, and lay wait for them with every kind of ambush: but if they shall convert, and observe prayer, and pay the obligatory alms, then let them go their way, for God is Gracious, Merciful.”

Sura 9:39 “If you do not fight, He will punish you severely, and put others in your place”

Sura 5:51: “O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other....

War is prescribed to you: but from this ye are averse.” (Sura 2:212).

"Hadith, the body of traditions relating to Mohammed and now supplemental to the Koran: He (Abu Hurayah) reported the messenger of Allah as saying: The last hour will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, so that Jews will hide behind stones and trees and the Stone and the tree will say, O Muslim, O servant of God! There is a Jew behind me; come and kill him. The only exception will be the box-thorn for it is one of the trees of the Jews. (Sahih of Muslim, quoted by Israel and the Prophecies of Al Quran by Ali Akbar, Bismi Publishers 1992, p.44)"

Yea, Thats the one.

"[Studies] exposed addicts’ tendency toward ignoring responsibilities, lagging in studies, becoming introverts and sometimes having serious behavioral disorder. Some gamers drift into substance abuse, especially stimulants — from caffeine to cocaine — that allow them to remain awake for extended periods of time."

1. I don't think I ever remember even the more hardcore gamers in local area going thi far. Sure, theyd pop a Red Bull on occasion, but cocaine? How do we know said gamers weren't druggies even before they began playing?

Besides, this only speaks for an extreme case within the community...much in the same way fundamental jihadists are an extreme case within the Muslim Community. Since when did attacking an entire community based on the stupidity of a minority ever become an educated "study"?

That's baseless generalization.

2. "becoming introverts and sometimes having serious behavioral disorder."

As many of us have stated before, a lot of games today rely heavily on socialization. Doubly so for multiplayer-based games (Like Xbox Live), or MMORPGs. Heck, even single-player games nurture a sense of cammaraderie in the way it allows guys who've played the game to mingle and talk about a related topic.

Its not different from sports fans gathering to talk about their favorite players.

And as many MMO gamer will tell you - being a jerk will only get you in hot water with the community, at worst a banning from the GMs. As they say in my home country, "delikadeza" will save your life.

Introverted? Serious behavioral disorders? Those criteria fit the profile for a suicide bomber far more than a gamer.

3. "Some gamers drift into substance abuse, especially stimulants — from caffeine to cocaine — that allow them to remain awake for extended periods of time."

As far as I can see, this problem is far more prevalent among truckers and hard labor workers.