The industry responds by pointing out lack of link between violence and games

Mar 21, 2012 10:25 GMT  ·  By

Two members of United States Congress have introduced a new bill that would require video game publishers to use a new warning label which talks about the risks of exposure to video games, similar to the ones used for cigarette packages.

Frank Wolf, who is a Republican representative from Virginia, stated, “Just as we warn smokers of the health consequences of tobacco, we should warn parents — and children — about the growing scientific evidence demonstrating a relationship between violent video games and violent behavior.”

The bill has been previously introduced but failed to gain enough support to be debated and passed, but the two congressmen who created it seems eager to once again test the political waters.

The Entertainment Software Association has reacted by saying, “Numerous medical experts, research authorities, and courts across the country, including the United States Supreme Court, exhaustively reviewed the research Representative Baca uses to base his bill and found it lacking and unpersuasive. Independent scientific researchers found no causal connection between video games and real life violence”