Charge: Gamers Not Honest About Their Defense Of Violent GamesS
In our continued efforts to see both sides of the argument in
Australia and elsewhere about the extreme content of some games
we find this letter to the editor that says that many violent
game defenders are being disingenuous.  The context is the
ongoing debate in Australia about whether the country should
finally allow video games to have the equivalent of an M rating,
or in movie terms, an R rating, for video games. Currently, a
game must be deemed suitable at least for a 15-year-old in
Australia in order for the game to be classified by the nation's
ratings board. Many games rated M in America have failed to meet
this threshold, though the recent controversy over the very
violent upcoming Aliens Vs. Predator appears to have ended with
the game getting Australia's MA15+ rating.  Here's letter-writer
Caleb Owens writing in to today's Sydney Morning Herald:  True
maturity an alien concept to video gamers  I wish video gamers
were more honest abo