New Government enquiry into violent videogames

[HEXUS]

The government are pressing on with their investigations into videogames that portray violence, contain sexually explicit material or incite racial hatred. The clock is ticking to a time where we'll no longer be able to play the likes of GTA IV.

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[vinnyT]

For crying out loud, more money wasted.

[SmileyUK]

makes me laugh after watching 30 days of night where a vampire child gets beheaded, but you cant have 2 ropey looking 3d models shagging or beating each other up.

In fact there was more beheading in that film than the whole of the french revolution.

[kalniel]

Didn't they announce this ages ago? It was looked forward to by the companies as a very good thing - it'll finally put the nail in the coffin for people using video games as an excuse.

So not a waste of money at all in my opinion - they are not going in there to try and support a pre-supposed position, and once it's done companies will probably be able to take liable action against those claiming they do cause harm.

[Sinizter]

WTF? How about enquiry into why criminals are let back onto the street so quickly after they are sent in ?

Or how about an enquiry why they take in billions in environment taxes yet dont spend any money on environment causes and pay out chicken **** in grants for being green ?

[Lucio]

Why do they need to spend hundred's of thousands of pounds on this? Yes, there's a need to try and figure out if these things are harmful to society, but surely after they've solved a lot of other problems, like child poverty and poor education and healthcare.

When you're trying to solve a problem you don't just ignore the main causes in favour of easy tasks that means you can pretend you're doing something!

[noTHINGface]

makes me laugh after watching 30 days of night where a vampire child gets beheaded, but you cant have 2 ropey looking 3d models shagging or beating each other up.

Yeah - and that was a 15 certificate as well! Compare that to games with 18 ratings and the latter looks like playschool.

[chuckskull]

Great point, Alien, Exorcist, Hellraiser to name just a few off the top of my head make even the nastiest games pale in comparison.

Even mainstream stuff, T3 for example(saw it again the other night). Robot from the future, sticks arm clean through a cops chest and drives the car from the back seat, while he's still wriggling and fighting for his life with an arm sticking through his chest. Even that, a pretty mainstream movie that generated very little(if any) controversy outstrips GTA and alike by a long margin.