Kotaku
Reader Aaron sends word of a disturbing run-in he and his young nephew had during a game of Xbox 360 Uno.
Aaron says he allowed his nephew to play Uno while visiting, because the child's mother told him specifically to allow him to "play a game that wouldn't make him hyper or want to have bad dreams."
Things were going well, Aaron says, until he joined a room using one of the new Uno card skins. One of the four players had a camera and everyone was asking the guy about it.
The player said he couldn't say how he got the camera and then added "check this out" and proceeds to light up a blunt and smoke it, blowing the smoke into the camera.
And wouldn't you know it, the nephew's mother walked into the room just in time to see that.
Aaron goes on to say he also ran into a woman who was apparently streaking Uno games. While Aaron sent me the name of the weed smoker, he didn't send the name of the woman which I wanted... um... for research purposes.
Aaron emailed a complaint to Microsoft support and to the ESRB, pointing out that a game rated for everyone maybe needs to be looked at again when people can add their own streaming content to it live.
I hit up Microsoft for a response and the best they could do was send me a general statement about the safety of Xbox Live.
Xbox 360 and Xbox Live offer some of the most advanced family setting features in the entertainment industry. Xbox Live Vision was developed to fully leverage those features so that parents and kids can use it and feel safe while interacting with others. For example the personalized gamer picture is only viewable by people on your friends list. As you already know the friends list has some very advanced safety and security features built into it.
I haven't been able to figure out how to turn off the camera view of another Uno player and they still can't tell me if this is possible.
Just think what it's going to be like when the camera is actually available for sale. I sense a patch coming.
