11th Annual MediaWise® Video Game Report Card
Source: National Institute on Media and the Family

While we will continue to pressure the industry to improve, this report card focuses less on the flaws of a complex industry and more on what all of us can do about the real risks posed by some types of video games. The fact is video games are here to stay. Increasingly, they play a large role in the lives of young people. Games and game systems are becoming more complex, allowing them to have a greater impact and unlocking new potentials as excellent teaching tools. If we want our children to benefit from technological innovations and to avoid the harm that some games pose, we parents need to roll up our sleeves and get to work.

This report suggests that the solutions to the problems presented by video games lie in eradicating ignorance on both the scientific-technical and the parental knowledge levels. Simply put, parents need to step up to the plate and the experts need to conduct more and better research. The research and anecdotal findings we already have portray ahe present rating system is broken and can’t be fixed. growing health crisis on multiple levels, each of which shows an important link to video games. These findings confirm the critical need for increased understanding of video games’ impact on kids as well as greater involvement in children’s media use.

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