British Parliament Forms Video Game Study Group

June 12, 2009 -

The British Parliament has formed a working group to address issues related to the U.K. video game industry.

Edge Online reports that Labour MP Bill Olner (left) will head the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Computer and Video Games Industry. Of the newly-formed group, Olner said:

All-Party Groups can be a highly effective vehicle to raise and discuss issues amongst interested Parliamentarians. I congratulate [U.K. game developers associartion] Tiga for showing leadership in instigating the creation of Westminster’s first All Party Parliamentary Group for the Computer and Video Games Industry, and for providing its secretariat. The entire All Party Parliamentary Group is looking forward to working with Tiga in discussing issues crucial to the video games industry.

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Re: British Parliament Forms Video Game Study Group

Submitted by Bennett Beeny on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 07:13.

Double post - sorry.

Re: British Parliament Forms Video Game Study Group

Submitted by Roh02 on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 16:56.

politics trying something to do with videogames ... why does this never reasure me

Re: British Parliament Forms Video Game Study Group

Submitted by C. Aaron Browbo... on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 19:09.

i think i can confirm your fear that this is going to be a problem for video games in general, especially violent ones, is that the laboUr party is run by people afraid brave new world that is reality these days. i.e.: this world feeds off violence in the new world, and conservatives want the '50's style of wholesome entertainment.

man it breaks my heart that i am a republican sometimes, (and this is going to get taken out of context by Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck), this world is not yet brave enough to face the violence of this world, imo, we don't have the same princeables as we did back in the day, but this is reality and people like JT (the "second") and others like him don't realize that we are coming out of our shells and norms in life. this is how it is. (i need red bull now)

Jesus Jack Jones Thompson loves you, so kill for his amusement so we can get money for the new "People's Temple of Jesus Jack Jones Thompson"

Re: British Parliament Forms Video Game Study Group

Submitted by Bennett Beeny on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 07:13.

Even back in the day we didn't have the principles you're talking about. The fact that people wrote down documents like the Constitution that espoused high principles means that we DIDN'T have those principles back then either. If you think people actually lived by higher principles and values 'back in the day' then you're living in a fantasy that's just as unrealistic as anyone else's.

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Papa Midnight: Monte: That's honestly rather short-sighted. As has been proven with other persons who have been targeted, if it wasn't Quinn, it would be someone else.10/18/2014 - 6:26pm

Avalongod: I think that's part of what gives an esoteric news story like this real life...it taps into a larger narrative about misogyny in society outside of games.10/18/2014 - 3:29pm

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