Michigan Governor Jennifer M Granholm signed the final suite of bills
into law yesterday, making the sale, or rental, of violent games to minors illegal within the state of Michigan.
As you might expect, the ESA is taking the new laws to task. In the governor's words:
"Protecting our children must be everyone's top priority… This is a common-sense law that provides parents with the tools they need to protect their children from the effects of violence and graphic adult content."
According to GameSpot, the naughty games within the scope of the law have been defined as "real or simulated graphic depictions of physical injuries or physical violence against parties who realistically appear to be human beings, including actions causing death, inflicting cruelty, dismemberment, decapitation, maiming, disfigurement, or other mutilation of body parts, murder, criminal sexual conduct, or torture." What about Donkey Kong? Don't animals have rights, too?
