To be fair, PEGI is about to do a lot more (as part of its post DEAct activities) so this is just opportunistic posturing after which he can claim that “PEGI did some stuff after my EDM” which will be true, but emphatically not causal.

Tom's point, and I agree with this, is that all he did was ask for more enforcement of existing laws to keep inappropriate games out of the hands of children. Does this need Parliamentary time? No. It is a perfectly fair thing to ask for?

Tom and I both think so.

It’s already against the law to sell 18 rated games to minors. Here is what you need to consider when thinking about his EDM.

* Why is this an issue of such urgency that it requires government attention? What grave harm is being done that parliament needs to spend time debating the danger posed by games too children?

None. There isn’t, it’s just Vaz, again, doing his best to play the Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children card and take a pop at the games industry.

What more should PEGI do, that they don’t already do? This EDM states that PEGI aren’t doing enough. Do you think that the PEGI ratings are insufficient? We are already unable to make licensed games for children that is age-rated appropriately if it uses the same themes and contents as the TV show it is based on.

There is no evidence of harm done, or of widespread breaking of the rules (“some children”? How many, exactly?) and thus no need for government intervention.

Develop is entirely in the right to call this out for what it is.