The International Herald Tribune has an article up exploring the recent trend toward less violent, more all-ages friendly video games. The article is poorly written, but does bring up some interesting points.
“A number of top manufacturers recently created special departments to chase after potential family players. And they will stop at nothing to make a breakthrough, even using their own mothers, as one game developer, Igor Manceau, confessed.
“When my mother played our game she was fine and had fun,” said Manceau, who is developing “Word Coach” for Ubisoft from the company’s Canadian studios in Montreal. “But she needed me there to go through the game and select each one. So we started to focus on accessibility after that.””
Link! (via GoNintendo)