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Kimberly M. Thompson, an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and Kevin M. Haninger, a PhD candidate at HSPH, were invited to speak on the popular sports news program for their research on the content and rating systems used for video games, in the last of a four-part series on the medium broadcast by “SportsCenter...
...particular, Thompson and Haninger pointed to MLB Slugfest—which allows the player to beam an opponent with a baseball and deliver violent, unnecessary body blows—and NBA Ballers, in which players acquire a greater entourage of women as they advance in the game...
...really more about the bling-bling,” Thompson said about the ability to earn a larger cadre of groupies in NBA Ballers. “We focused on that game, and why it was E-rated instead of T [for teen] rating...
...findings that Thompson and Haninger presented on ESPN came from a series of articles they have co-authored on video games, which have looked at the rates of violence in T- and E-rated video games. The most press they received followed the publication of their findings of T-rated video games in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on Feb. 18, though they were invited to appear on another ESPN show after an earlier article was published...
This previous article was also published in JAMA, on Aug. 1, 2001, and looked at the rates of violence in E-rated video games. In the study, Thompson and Haninger discovered that games often contained depictions of violence, even though there weren’t any labels on the video game cover, and according to the study, “that games may reward players for their violent actions.” The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is supposed to put a list of content descriptors on the cover of its video games, in addition to just the simple...