Comments on: The Byron Report: Brown Vs. The Gaming Press

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Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:19:55 +0000

[...] some of the reactions to the report, this is a good piece of work, Open Education, Gamesindustry, Rock, Paper Shotgun and Bobbie Johnson at Guardian have more about [...]

By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:01:12 +0000

I sent the following in to the byron review address that was published when news of the review first broke
http://www.pissheadnerds.com/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=2&thread_id=3

I’m not against applying BBFC ratings to games, I am against the flawed methods of observing and testing gaming that is endemic in every review of this industry.

Yes, give it an age rating.. no, don’t ban them because of a flawed understanding of how games affect their players.

By: Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Still Hoping For That Post-Apocalyptic Robot Versus Monkey Immersive Sim » Blog Archive » The Sunday Papers

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:34:40 +0000

[...] on from our previous coverage of Gordon Brown cracking down on games, The Guardian have more (er) [...]

By: JC Hewitt

JC Hewitt — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:56:35 +0000

Uh, screw your heads on a little tighter. Brown wants more cash from the games industry. Professional thieves are not moral authorities.

Subjecting games to more stringent censorship allows politicians to extract more rent from entertainers. Ignore what they say, just watch what they do.

By: Lady Biscuitry

Lady Biscuitry — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:11:13 +0000

It’s all very admirable, wanting to keep children away from stuff that could potentially mess them up in the head for years to come. But I have to ask this: what is the point of it all when most of them will see and hear worse in school from their peers on a daily basis?

By: Will Tomas

Will Tomas — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:04:38 +0000

Here’s the Guardian banging on about it…

By: Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Still Hoping For That Post-Apocalyptic Robot Versus Monkey Immersive Sim » Blog Archive » RPS Omnibus: Feb 3rd-8th

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:58:08 +0000

[...] Gordon Brown versus the gaming press in comments: many rude things are said about the UK prime minister [...]

By: Talorc

Talorc — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:03:08 +0000

Is Milton Keynes any good at cricket though? I THINK BLOODY NOT!!

re 50 cent being banned in Australia – I just looked up the list of “refused classification” (e.g. banned) games, and 50 cent was on it. They very well may have cut the offending content and got it classified for sale with the cut version.

That’s what GTA III:SA did by submitting a no hot coffee version after the original version got banned.

I like it better when they do the Aussie ratings by putting stickers over the original PEGI or ESRB ratings, instead of an integral part of the box art. I can rip the stickers off then :-)

By: goz

goz — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:59:34 +0000

“The issue for Americans is not as much “lolshock” but a difference in cultural connotations. In the US the only thing that has a government-enforced age restriction is pornography (alcohol and cigarettes too, but for different reasons and etc). In the UK, government-backed age restriction might be seen as a public view of games as more than just toys (I don’t know, that’s the impression I get). In the US, such a system would essential be an assertion that games=porn.”

I think this is the key here and bravo for putting it so clearly.

This is why Brits and Americans who are enthustiastic gamers of similar liberal leanings seem to find it so hard to find common ground on the issue.

By: James T

James T — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:14:48 +0000

Was also asked last week to buy Kane & Lynch by a child who looked around 12, needless to say i turned them down.

Bravo! No-one should inflict ‘Kane & Lynch’ upon an innocent child — they’d never wake up.

And I agree re: the Australian censors dropping mind-altering substances; they used to have those nice little symbols with a text warning down underneath everything, and now they’ve got these enormous, garish slabs of warning text splatted just below-centre on every game and DVD cover in the fucking country. Of course, quite beyond that, the trigger-happy banning of games and, much more prominently, films, would quite rightly make us a global laughingstock if our country didn’t have the population and global profile of, oh, Milton Keynes. We’re not quite as badly-off as Germany’s reputed to be, but it’s still unacceptable.