Grumpy Gurevitz: Auch Aye the Noo

I was on holiday recently, visiting family in Glasgow. A lovely place with lovely responsible people. Whilst there, we had a day in town to look at some shops and keep my wee one occupied (we had already done Loch Lomond and the transport museum).As one does, we went into a shopping centre and low and behold we were in a store, which also happened to include a GAME. For our international readers, GAME is the largest specialist game retailer in the UK.

Grumpy Gurevitz: Stupid People Lead Me To Violence!

What causes violence? If you are fan of George Lucas then you know that ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to anger, and anger to violence. I ask this as currently we are going through the yearly attack on gaming, largely caused by Modern Warfare 2; but most probably an attack which would have attached itself to another game had MW2 not been released.

British MPs discuss games, game lobbyist group founded

Yesterday in the House of Commons, Labour MP rabble-rouser Keith Vaz launched an attack on games (again). He stated that the level of violence in games like Modern Warfare 2 was unacceptable and that the government should take extra steps to be certain that these kinds of games don’t fall into the hands of children.

M For Mature

In theory I support that any form of media (games, movies, music and even books) should have adequate warnings on them to give the buyer an idea of what content they are going to be exposed to. I just think age limitations are a bit strict. Or are they? This is one of those subjects that I can see from both sides.