TechHive: The White House cares about games, but not for the reasons you think

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The White House cares about games, but not for the reasons you think Oct 30th 2013, 13:02, by Hayden Dingman Mark DeLoura, the White House's Senior Advisor for Digital Media, expounded on the government's games policies at the Gamesbeat 2013 conference Tuesday, focusing on education and the game industry's problem with "perceptions." DeLoura has been around the industry for a while, with stints working for Nintendo, Sony, Ubisoft and others on his resume. Mark DeLoura He was also a key figure in the White House's investigationinto the games industry last year after the Newtown shootings, when Vice President Joe Biden sat down with industry figures like EA's former CEO John Ricciotello to discuss violent video games. "There's a conversation about research and there's a conversation about perception," said DeLoura. "The conversation about research is, 'Do researchers know whether violent games cause long-term violent behavior?' The answer there is no." To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: mario_teaches_typing-100066735-small.jpg

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