Prime Minister Gordon Brown commends U.K. game industry

*walks away quietly*

isin't he just going to call us terrorist's again?

I didn't know that the prime minister is a ventriloquist.

Strategically placed microphone to the EYE.

Yet another case of two-faced politicians. They are so quick to congratulate the industry when there's money and PR involved, but how many seconds later will it be before someone's trying to bash the game industry and ignore the fact that, especially in England, all the talent is going overseas where the industry is well supported.
England isn't leading the way by a long shot, sadly and there won't be much to brag about when everyone is living in Canada where they give massive tax incentives to game companies.

He won't be PM for long.

Thank God.

I wonder if Gordon Brown's favourite game is Bully...

Politicians are against games for being violent etc. once there's the posibility of making money from it they jump on the bandwaggon.

At least it's a first step, regardless. So Well done Mr. Brown!

As far as Gordon Brown is concerned....put money where your mouth is, the gaming industry can be a big part of the future economic success of Britain & we do need to work to retain talent, if that means taking the same kinds of steps as Canada has we should compete on the same level.

Videogames can & do have an effect on it's players, the younger they are the larger the effect they can have. I'm not saying violent videogames should be banned at all, but we should not simply discount the effects out of hand, Politicians prey on the fears & insecurities of the voting public, a lot of whom are parents so in political terms it's seen as a way to gain votes to appeal to those worries, which is a mistake.

Violent videogames, particularly ones where you are in the situation of needing to kill opponents in order to progress have been studied by psychologists & the Armed forces in developed countries & there are notable impacts, such as decreasing the "freeze" response, & increasing hand to eye co-ordination along with faster judmental reactions. Military training in the future may well incorporate a certain amount of "virtual" training to help members of the armed forces to be able to respknd better, & it will in all likeliehood be directly responsible for saving lives in actual operations. In studies of children the most notable change in the responses of those that played violent games was a lessening in "co-operative" actions, the kids were less likely to be surprised which may be seen as good or bad, but they were less likely to intervene in a situation in which their actions would be helpful.

Conclusions cannot be drawn yet, not large enough studies have been carried out & not for long enough periods of time to formulate a medical opinion, but games do have effects on people & the effects are larger on children, nothing is better than good parenting but understanding why these changes occur is as important to science & medicine as it is to the gaming community, nobody yet understands the long term impact, & I suspect that once it is understood it will be far more complex an impact that will not be easy to categorise in simple good & bad terms, humans are individuals & each one will be impacted in subtlely different ways though there will emerge "trends" in impact.

For the Icelandic terrorism thing, when the Icelandic banking industry went under the UK government paniced as alot of UK citizens and councils(UK local government) had money in high interest Icelandic bank accounts. In their infinite wisdom Labour decided the best way to guarantee that they would get their money back was to freeze all UK icelandic accounts under terrorism laws.... Not only was Iceland justifiably pissed at this but it was abuse of anti-terrorism laws that were brought under a promise that they would not be used for anything but terrorism. On my phone atm so can't link you to an article but all this occured end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009

This man is a nutty. He's always talking about a New World Order/a single global government in his speeches. And he's completely ****** the UK's economy. You think ours is bad? This is where we're headed. Get those pokes out of office for god almighty.

I've been away from England the past two years of Gordon Brown as PM, and as bad as he is, it's better than being run by Cameron, and a lot better than the lib dems, who really just toy with the idea of politics. The Labour party really need to get there act together though. It sounds like leaders are really seeing the future of gaming, this is good for all aspiring and current game developers, I get to meet Harry Mack today (thought I'd brag half way through). The Canadian government have so many programs for game developers, Ontario is thriving off of it.

Did anybody else first read his name as Golden Brown?

I condemn his fat stupid lying whore mouth.