By Mike Fahey, 9:40 AM on Wed Feb 14 2007, 43 views (Edit post, Set to draft, Slurp)

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Yesterday Kansas Senator and Republican Presidential hopeful Sam "Goodness" Brownback took steps to alienate the gamer voting community by announcing plans to revive his Truth in Video Game Rating Act. The act, first introduced last fall, would require members of the ESRB play a game through from start to finish before delivering a rating on the title.

It makes sense, really...they do it for movies after all...but then movies don't tend to run upwards of 50 hours+ these days or require any sort of skill from the reviewer, as Roger Ebert often proves. The only way this could work without creating a massive bottleneck of games trying to pass through the ESRB system, is if they hired actual gamers to sit on the board, thus defeating the whole purpose. I can just see the press releases announcing game delays. "The game will be out once the ESRB members develop some FPS skills." Michael Fahey

Presidential hopeful resurrects federal game bill [GameSpot]