Recently, whattheyplay.com , a site designed to help parents decide what their children should and shouldn't play, held a poll asking what type of content in games parents find most offensive. As you can see, the poll results were very interesting. Two men kissing and a man and a woman having sex are apparently more offensive than a graphically severed human head? Apparently swearing doesn't really matter, so f*** it, I won't even go into that one. Thank goodness, Martha, little Timmy is a convicted murder, but at least he didn't turn out to be a young father or a homosexual...... I know it's an exaggeration, but seriously? Now, excuse for maybe looking a little too deeply into this, but I think I may be onto something. We all know that the world is becoming desensitized to violence, heck, we see it in the news every day.... This brings me to sexual content, do parents find it more offensive or dangerous to their children's future? Or is it that they realise that it may lead to their children enquiring about it, ultimately lending up in a discussion about "the birds and the bees".... My point is that I sincerely hope that parents aren't subconsciously voting and focusing on the content that involves them actually having to take responsibility and exert a bit of effort. A lot of parents treat videogames like a new age babysitter, just plonk the kid in front of the TV with a controller in his hand and the afternoon is sorted. I ask you now though, with that in mind, would you prefer your child to walk in on the baby sitter doing the bedroom boogie with their partner, or have him walk in on him/her holding a severed head thats dripping blood onto a lifeless, headless, body? I know which one would mess me up for life, that's for sure. Comments from any readers who are parents will be appreciated.

GameTrailers.com has posted an overview of Gran Turismo 5 which gives the people who haven’t yet played this game a nice look at exactly what it entails. It isn’t a review as such as they don’t discuss anything in detail, but rather just gives you a very good overview of what GT5 Prologue includes and where it is going. That …

We should have sympathy for the developer out there. It’s not an easy gig and comes with a lot of pressure – specifically from the publisher who signed you. But we should also give a nod to the publishers that throw lots of money at potential big-hit games – and lose quite a lot when a game wobbles or folds. …

So the price cut is in full swing now and I have to admit I am hugely suprised at the complete and total lack of movement on the Xbox 360 side. It has become so noticeable now that I can only feel that Microsoft are preparing something big… Any price cut instantly sparks a spike in sales that lasts for …

Haze has now moved from a good looking title that I was interested in to an absolute must have. Easily the best thing, in my opinion, about Halo 3 was its 4 player co-op mode. Now it has officially been confirmed that Haze will have the same thing. Co-op is something that I was very sad to see leave the …

One of the most exciting things about this generation is the ability of the next gen consoles to completely change a game with a small piece of DLC. Burnout Paradise City was easily my favourite driving game of the last year (sorry PGR, GT5:P and Forza), I enjoyed it’s simplicity of driving and complexity of challenges. The online multiplayer was …

  The publishers are getting quite good at setting up limited edition packs now… or it’s purely down to the fact that I am dying to get my hands on this game. Either way this looks like a must have for any alone in the dark fan. The pack is going to include. 15cm Alone in the Dark Edward Carnby …

  This is not to say that we or Europe are getting it any time soon, but if history is to be repeated we can expect to get it soon after this. It was announced today that Battlefield: Bad Company with all of it’s destructible environment and black humour will be landing on the Xbox 360 and PS3 in the …