Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) announced his candidacy for president this week and, not coincidentally, reintroduced the Truth in Video Game Rating Act, which died a quiet death when nobody did a darn thing about it before the 109th Congress closed last year.
Much as its name implies, the bill calls for a game's rating to accurately reflect the content contained within. Crazy concept, I know, but it all comes from the dear-god-can-we-please-let-it-go-already Hot Coffee incident. The problem with the bill, from a practical point of view, is that it would require the ESRB to completely play through a game before giving it a rating.
Presidential Hopeful Reintroduces Video Games Act [Macworld]
