"There is a correlation between playing violent games and aggressive behaviour, but this
is not evidence that one causes the other"

kinda like road rage then.

I believe studies have shown that aggression can be detected very early even before pre-school(could be the breast feeding theory, I know if after 9 months waiting, thinking you're going to get to suck on some titties only to be fronted with powdered SMA in a bottle, I'd be pretty miffed too.....erm back on topic ).

I think overall this report is a decade to late and tells us all what we know already about age rating systems, hopefully it will calm the media down a bit though.

this story was all over BBC radio 1 yesterday and the reporting was utter balls. their tech editor said that aside from violent and sexual games having to go thru BBFC, "some games use a different rating system". err, like, 99.9% of other games are PEGI rated. the same was true fo the old ELSPA rating. he didn't even mention PEGI or ELSPA or the good efforts the industry has been making for years. then they went and dug up that old non-truth about the Stefan Pakeerah murder being linked to Manhunt. given that radio 1 is supposed to target yoofs, you'd hope they at least try to educate them. isn't that supposed part of the bbc mantra?

anyway, why don't the industry/government just stick with the PEGI system and use that as the legal age restriction? why bother with another body?(though the PEGI logos need sorting - they're crap). sanyway making it illegal to sell games to underage kids will change diddly squat - at 30+ quid a pop most of these kids already get their games bought by parents. as always its really the fault of the parent for ignoring the already well established age rating system.

so this leads to Byron's suggestion of "Campaign to raise awareness of age ratings and parental controls underway."

err, so what's the "askaboutgames.com" stuff that ELSPA's been pushing for the last few years?