Ten Violent Video Games The Focus of ICCR and Other Concerned Investors
See our list of 10
violent video games and read our joint
statement
(February 7, 2005)
Current News | January 2005:
ICCR will host a meeting with the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association (IEMA) and the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) in February 2005.
What you can do:
Joint Statement
- Read why
ICCR is concerned.
- Read the text of the joint
statement from groups concerned about video game violence.
- Sign on to the joint statement by e-mailing Gary
Brouse
Letter-writing campaign
Corporations must assume greater responsibility for education about, and enforcement of, rating systems and guidelines applicable to violent interactive videos.
Be a voice for change. Write to leading retailers and renters of video games and find out what their policies are to prevent children's access to violent video and computer games.
- Click here for a sample letter that you can adapt for your own use.
- Send your letter to the list of corporations we've created
here.
- Read company responses to ICCR's letter writing campaign.
Let us know that you have taken action. Please send a copy of your letter to the companies to:
Gary Brouse
ICCR
Suite 1842
475 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10115
Learn More
Articles and Reports:
- "Violent
Video Games: Child's Play?" by Gary Brouse (ICCR Corporate Examiner Vol.
32 no.9)
- New
York City Council Investigative Report, December 2004
- FTC
July report
- Children
and Violent Video Games, Presbyterian Church
- "Violent
Video Games: Are Your Students Tuned Into A VVG World?" by Sr. Nora
Nash (Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, the Sisters of St. Francis
of Philadelphia)
Websites:
- Mothers Against Violence in America: www.mavia.org
- Media Family: www.mediafamily.org
- Outstanding Non-Violent Video Games: www.nonviolentgames.org
Attention members of the media
- See our list of 10
violent video games and read our joint
statement (February 7, 2005).
- ICCR contacts: if you'd like to speak with an ICCR member or staff person about the campaign, please click
here.
November 23, 2004 press conference:
- Hear a streaming
audio replay of the November 23, 2004 news conference (available as of 5
p.m. EST on November 23, 2004).
- Watch a
streaming video showing the violence in video games available to America's
youngest children. Note: This content is intended for adults, not children.