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If he does what this article says then the vast majority of reasonable British people will see just how stupid it is. Thus far less votes for Labour at the next election and more chance of getting rid of this awful government.
Having said that, Cameron is also pretty ignorant when it comes to video games.

Why don't ELSPA mount a massive campaign to educate the press about video games? Then they would pour ridicule when Gordon Brown says things like video games cause knife crime. He got away with this precisely because the press don't know what they are writing about.

looks like no gta4 for us in the uk then

I don't think there's any suggestion of games getting banned. If the report concludes that games should have a clearer labelling system and recieve BBFC certificates, that's fine by me. The only worry is if the government try to spin it.

And I can't imagine for a second the Tories being any more inclined to treat the industry with more respect. They've got their enranged Daily Mail voters to think about.

this is a punch of ****. the esrb is doing well here. im glad i dont live in the uk or any where else. the ****** pm needs to leave damn video games alone. what the hell is wrong here is that damn officals have no idea what there *** going to.

I work as a video game developer and I'm tired of our industry taking the defensive on this. For one thing, the typical gamer is not a child. Not all games are for kids and we should be allowed the same freedoms as other media to create entertainment suitable for adults. There seems to be a heirarchy of "good" and "bad" media. Good is books, and there's no age regulation--which means children could buy controversial works like William S. Burroughs, Irvine Welsh, Chuck Pahlaniuk if they were so inclined, but a game like Manhunt 2 gets banned (by the way, I'm not making any judgements about literary quality, just a point about how different media are treated by law). On that note, many films that may be considered as having limited artistic merit and controversial violent content (Hostel, Saw, etc) get a certificate whilst games with similar levels of nihilistic violence are treated differently and banned.
It's time the games industry stood up to the conservative and censorious elements in government and the press who want to restrict our freedoms and dictate what individuals can experience as entertainment.
On a parting note, the ESRB system provides more information about the content o***ame to a potential buyer than the BBFC system, so it would seem like a step backwards in the education of the public about the content of games, to adopt that instead.

The possibility of Gordon Brown using the review to grab more headlines?

Colour me suprised.