Damp Squib

So the worrying Byron Review turned out to be far less damaging then many of us had feared. The BBFC won't be given vast amounts of new power and British adults are not going to be limited to playing Tetris and Pong. This leads to the question 'what the hell was the point of this report?' Apparently all computer games should be given a Pegi and BBFC certificate and children should be more carefully regulated with regards to what they play. Well duh. How much money has this earth shattering revelation cost us taxpayers Mr Brown?
The kind of games this report targeted are usually 18 rated anyway and so parents know what the content is liable to be.
Online games can only be certificated if the servers are based in the UK, most aren't.
Many young children have games consoles, Sky TV and broadband in their bedrooms. Whilst this is appallingly bad parenting and extremely irresponsible it is so much easier to let your kids be entertained by modern technology then to actually put the work into looking after them yourself. Parents do know of the material that is available online and it still doesn't stop them letting their children surf away in their own rooms.
At the end of the day it is not the games developers who are to blame but the parents themselves and all the courses designed to educate them will be a further waste of taxpayers money. On a positive note there was no declaration of video games turning children into drooling, gun toting nutbags and on an even more positive note I still haven't featured on Crimewatch despite playing Halo and GTA back to back last week.