So I'm sitting here eating ice cream and I hear on the tv that they're planning to put medical warnings on violent video games because apparently it damages children, the game they have a main complaint about? BIOSHOCK now, I don't know about everyone else, but my copy of Bioshock has a big red and clear "18" on it, which I thought was rather clear.


So later on they say we need "Cinema style age ratings like 12+ and an 18+" which I find odd, because as I said earlier My copy of bioshock has a big red fat 18 plastered on it. Just like DVDS and Movies.

Infact lets compare said warnings:

Bioshock box art:


Saw 3 Dvd Box art:



Now, lets add the fact they show two little kids playing with a wiimote while they show scenes from Bioshock. Did they get a wii copy of this game early or something? because it's the first I've heard of it.

And to top it all off, we have a post right here on the show's own forum stating:

As far as I am aware all video games have had age ratings on them for years.

So is this another cop out by parents blaming what their children do on someone else?

The video games I have seen have been clearly labelled and surely if a games shop saw a 10 year old was buying an 18 rated game then they wouldn't sell it to them.

Which is 100% correct there is infact a law stopping store clearks selling adult games to children, if they do so they'll suffer a substantial fine.


They've just said that they will have the Prime Minister (Gordon brown) to talk about this subject later, so I will update then.

Updated:
Okay, so they have an 'expert' on and she said they need to change the way the the ratings are set.

And apparently, according to the show host, the 3+ games are very violent they have mister incredible shooting things and smashing them around! my word!
Someone emailed in talking about the age ratings, and said, they can't sell the games to kids etc, and that there's are age ratings and they can't sell them to kids etc,etc,etc which is good, but they bring up some BS excuse that children say "those are skill ratings not age ratings" bullshit, a parent isn't going to confuse 18+ for a skill rating.

They're saying they need one simple classifacation for video games - but they DO have that, this doesn't make fucking sense where are they getting their information from? They've just sat and said "Parents don't wanna check their kids games because they're busy cooking or cleaning or whatever" Great, fucking educate the parents then, you dumb fucks, what can you possibly do to make it any more obvious? Put a big fucking banner on the game cases that says 'not for kids?'

"The Video Game industry isn't making these games for children, they're making them for adults they make that very clear but the term 'Games' is missleading"

Oh for christ sakes, shut the fuck up, you have to be some kind of inbred moron to not understand the big fat 18 plastered on their games, the same 18 rating that is on movies, tv, and dvds. Give me a break.