Gift Giving in the Season of Peace:
What Can We Do About Violent Video Games?

NEW YORK, NY///November 19, 2007///ICCR is once again sending out its annual Holiday Letter encouraging shoppers to be cautious when purchasing video games for children.

Video games are most often the item given as holiday gifts to children and adolescents. It is estimated that 80% of all video games sold are done so during the holiday season. We ask parents, grandparents and consumers to be extremely careful when selecting video games as gifts.

Included in this year’s Holiday Letter is information and a chart on video game retailer policies regarding sales to minors of “Mature” (M) rated video games. The retailer chart gives parents and consumers information to make a choice on which retailer they feel best serves their needs and expectations.

Please share this information with your religious congregations, schools, and media contacts (especially for inclusion in newsletters and other publications this holiday season), as well as to family and friends.

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) is a coalition of 275 faith-based institutional investors that have been working with retailers on sale policies and practices for over five years to develop industry best practices and to ensure that inappropriate video games do not fall into the hands of children.

For more information, please see our campaign page, or contact the director of ICCR’s Violence and Militarization program Gary Brouse (gbrouse@iccr.org | 212-870-2316).

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