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ARTICLE · 07 APRIL 2020

Video Game Censorship: Indian Purview

With millennium progressing into the second decade, the governments in all the countries have brought Interactive Video Game Industry ...

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With millennium progressing into the second decade, the governments in all the countries have brought Interactive Video Game Industry under its radar to restrict the increasingly graphic violence in the computer or digital games which intends to excite and interest the gamers. The chant of “protect the children” from the non-governmental organizations and National and State Commission of Children and Women in different states.

In a research investigation by Dr Jeanne Funk duly published in the Journal of India Pediatrics, it was revealed that children found violent and high-stress games exciting especially among the children who are in age group of class 7th and 8th students, 29% were inclined towards sports games but with violent graphics and a mere 2% were interested in educational games. With the advancement in technology, digital game designers have amplified the sadism and violence content with more realism.

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