People have been trying to blame video games for violence in real life for ages. The most well-known proponent of this concept (and possibly most ridiculed) is Jack Thompson, but it seems that a couple of human rights groups are jumping on the “Won’t anyone think of the children???” blame game bandwagon now.
Reported by the BBC today, two Swiss human rights groups have published the results of their analysis.
Twenty games were scrutinised to see if the conflicts they portrayed and what players can do in the virtual theatres of war were subject to the same limits as in the real world.