TT sends a link to from Huffington Post which updates the bit I wrote about the red Cross wanting to regulte war crimes in cideo games;
The International Committee of the Red Cross says media reports that it is investigating whether the Geneva Conventions apply to video games are false.
The Swiss-based humanitarian group assured gamers Thursday that “serious violations of the laws of war can only be committed in real-life situations.”
The ICRC says it is nevertheless interested in working with video game makers to promote a better understanding of international humanitarian law because some companies also develop war simulations for armed forces.
Yeah, that’s what I said when I wrote the piece. I read their committee report and it didn’t mention video games, but it did mention how they want to change the “violent culture” that they feel turns youths into violent soldiers. In other words, like I said before, they want to regulate video game violence.
And if they didn’t want to stick their nose where it doesn’t belong, why didn’t Alexandra Boivin say that when she was questioned initially? It took them more than week to craft the statement? I trust the terrorist-huggers at the Red Cross about as far as I could throw their headquarters.
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), NOT the American Red Cross; please don’t confuse the two. The AMERICAN Red Cross deserves our full support; the ICRC deserves our full disdain.
So the gamers are not going to be punished. Did they say anything about the developers?
Perhaps they want Gears of War: UN edition. You start out with a mission to save some people that are getting slaughtered by a brutal dictator. You equip your character then you have to wait at least six to eight months before deployment because several nations are debating whether or not the killings are justified and whether or not the UN has the right to interfere with another culture.
And the ICRC will have a mod where you can just blame America and Israel, thereby winning the game.