The state of New York is not only thinking outside the box but also inside the game console with a plan that would send the Emergency Management Office send alerts over gaming networks.

This plan is in the testing phase but network feeds on the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 already contain news items about everything from the latest games to sports scores. It seems a natural fit to receive important local news feeds while gaming online.

A CBS 12 news story out of Florida is reporting the New York police union officials see the game as an abomination as it’s dehumanizing officers and making light of violent situations. They believe the game is a negative influence on children despite the fact that Saints Row 2 has a Mature rating which is meant to prevent children from purchasing the game…

The National Toy Hall of Fame held a ceremony yesterday morning (November 8, 2007) to induct the Atari 2600 into its list of 38 elite toys. The other toys inducted at the ceremony, held at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY, were the kite and Raggedy Andy (Raggedy Ann had been previously more »

Just as there is no “I” in team or ice in hot tea, government legislation has little business trying to substitute the responsibility of parents with laws.

In an article by GameDaily, the New York state senate passed a video game bill, SO5888, sponsored by Senator Andrew Lanza (R-I, Staten Island), which seeks to:

“[E]stablish an Advisory Council on Interactive Media and Youth Violence to review the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) rating system and its effectiveness, as well as recommend further steps that can be taken “to curb children’s access and exposure to ‘adult-only’ material.”

This leads me to think that this is not as much an issue of free speech here as it is an insult to the efforts of the ESRB.