Recently, the ASA (Advertising Standards Agency) recently banned the advet for the game 'Kane and Lynch', deeming it too gory. This after the advert for the 'torture porn' film was allowed to run unchallenged.
Dr Tanya Byron reported last month that the games children play and their interaction with various new technologies, are a good and fun opertuinity for them to learn. She also posed the question "why is what we see on alot of television channels any worse than some of the games available?"
Newspapers and television news channels tend to show screenshots form games such as 'Manhunt' and 'God of War' in their stories. This is putting a very negative view on gaming as a whole as many of the games being sold on the marketthat have very non-violent themes.
Naomi Alderman commented in her report that there are many games that are widely accessible to children, free on the internet, that are beautiful, moving and inspiring works of art. The decision of many of these people to label all games as 'violent killing sprees' is quite an old fashioned view based on the fact they did not have the form of gaming when they were young that we are accustomed to today.
It has been stated that film such as The Godfather and Goodfellas contain the same, if not more graphic violence. It is a parents responsiblilty to make sure their children understand the media that they are consuming.
the creators of such gaming phenomenons as Grand theft auto and Call of Duty, have combatted these criticisms by saying, "our work portrays reality, if it offends you take action to change the world around you, not to change our creation. it is our world that is full of violence, not our game!"
The solution being, if our children are playing computer games and their content worries us, we should be playing them too.
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