Games Industry Scores High on Video Game Report Card
It's all As and Bs for the games industry, but is the National Institute on Media and Family's report fact-based or educated opinion?
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Monday, December 1, 2008; 12:19 AM
A controversial media watch group has released its 13th annual report on the state of the video games industry, handing out three As, a single B+, and one nebulous "I" for "Incomplete." Whose homework was gobbled by the dog? Parents, it seems, who received the incomplete in "parental involvement." I guess that's the National Institute on Media and the Family's tongue-in-cheek way of saying "Parents, thy work is never done."
The report card summary:
The addition of ratings summaries is yet another step forward in the growing list of improvements that the ESRB has made in recent years.
We commend the ESRB for intensifying efforts to help parents understand the video game ratings. The ESRB has become the entertainment industry leader in educating retailers and parents about the rating system.
The 80 percent enforcement rate shows significant progress with still some room for improvement.
Parental controls, timing devices and parent education efforts are all major improvements giving parents more tools to supervise game play.
