Barack Obama: “I supported federal funding to study the impact of video games on children’s cognitive development.”

Stephen Totilo, one of the MTV’s bloggers, wrote yesterday about how Obama’s communications department, made up mostly of guys in their twenties and thirties, used weekends to drink beer together and play the video game “Rock Band” at a group house in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Apparently they live out their rock-and-roll fantasies mastering guitar, bass, drums, and vocals :).

Jumping from this article to another I have encountered an answer of the new USA president Barack Obama to some questions about game industry and safe-kids digital environment:
- Would Obama support the legislation to keep violent games out of kids hands at a federal level
- What other strategies would support Obama to keep the video game industry and other media companies from marketing and selling inappropriate content to children?

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