Where Politics And Video Games Collide

I think is very good news - at least for the US. Teachers ansd parents and gamerdad working together to educate and inform people, students and the public about this.

I just wish we had some sort of gamerdad here in the Europe.

I mean it looks like the weird stuff finally is sort of coming our way too, now:

http://politiken.dk/tjek/digitalt/spil/article498720.ece

The text is in Danish but it says something like 'violent games to scrutiny from the EU' in the headline. Then the manchet, (the little text before the article) says that 'the Eu-commision has analyzed the laws about violence in computergames and the conclusion is that the business needs to tighten up and the point in doing so is in preventing school massacres' - like the one that's happened in Finland some while ago. (Sorry, if this should have been a news submission, I just thought it went very well along with the theme of this thread)

The article then goes on to say that the gaming industry needs to make the buyers more ware of the PEGI-ratings. It then continues to say that the EU-commisions recommendation is that this also should be done online i.e. on the internet where much of the sale goes on today.

And then I just think :'gee, it would be really nice, if we had a European gamerdad or the like' since the EU-commission doesn't seem to understand (still) that video and computergames aren't just for children anymore. And that if a child under the age of 18 gets say Mass Effect or Crysis or one of the GTA games, there must be something totally wrong, since buying online means having a credit card. And you can't get a credit card unless you're 18+ anyway (at least in most European states).

And Vivianne Reading does not seem to understand that PEGI like the ESRB is an independent organization that can't take orders from politicians as to what rating a certain game should get.

Again, I'm so sorry for this near highjacking of the thread, but I just fear that we are going to have the same arguments as the US have had for the past 5-10 years without having a gamerdad like Andrew to help us, the gaming public, inform the public about games and families that play games. And what good it will do for a family that play games.

That's why I just wish we had something like that in Europe - and in Denmark as well.

Finally, let me say that I'm glad to see the ESRB and the PTA getting behind GamerDad as well.