Yesterday evening saw the filing deadline for supporting briefs in Schwarzenegger vs Entertainment Merchants Association – the Supreme Court case involving a California statute restricting the sale or rental of violent video game sales. Nine US states oppose the law.
As the entertainment industry rallies against the controversial California video game law, the Colorado State Board of Education issues a call for the state to support the law, calling violent video games a potentially harmful activity like gambling.
Booksellers, publishers and authors, along with the recording, advertising, arcade and comic book industries rally against the California violent video game law in the name of all media.
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor recently spoke a word of charity for video games, telling ABC News in an interview that the medium’s a “fabulous” way to get children to learn.
The Supreme Court’s decision today to hear a case about the potential criminalising of the sale of violent video games to children sparked divided reactions from the parties in the case and a call to gamers to get informed.