Game industry to parents...

Check out the ratings! With the help of Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) on Capitol Hill recently, the videogame industry launched a new consumer-awareness campaign. Senator Lieberman "said parents must play a central role in learning about the ratings and what games their children should be playing," Fox News reports. CNET adds that "both senators have been vocal critics of the game industry in the past." The videogame ratings are at the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Meanwhile, London's TimesOnline.com reports that Left Behind: Eternal Forces, which "depicts a crusade of violence by Christians could be heading for the bestseller charts this Christmas, even though it has been condemned by Muslims and secularists." And two mainstream news outlets looked at the latest research on videogames' effects on teenage brains: NBC and USATODAY, leading with the story of a high school history teacher's own thoughtful test of whether videogames teach anything and, if so, what and how well?