Incomplete Gamer

From Columbus Ohio comes news that video games can save your life. True! An online report from NBC 4, reported that “children playing video games escaped gunfire”. The implication being that the act of playing video games somehow saved their lives. No they weren’t taking refuge behind the Xbox 360 power brick.

The report goes on to say that two men were struck by gunfire and taken to hospital, and the police reported that “things could have been worse as there were children at home playing PlayStation”. Possibly – and this is just conjecture on my part – what saved the kids was the fact that they were inside the house, and not out on the porch and in the direct line of fire. If we want to hand out praise, there were probably a dozen kids in the street who were also ‘saved’. Johnny, forced inside to the toilet by his weak bladder, the big-boned kid from across the road who’d ducked inside for another chocolate dairy snack…you get the idea.

Should Microsoft rethink its warning labels?

Still it’s only fair. Video games are so often wrongly maligned. It’s only right that they catch the occasional break and earn a little praise, even if it is undeserved.