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As reported earlier, the National Institute on Media and the Family, whose key funding dried up in a terrible economy, is closing. Founder Dave Walsh talked with the Associated Press, and reflected on his organization's influence in the industry. More »
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The National Institute on the Media and the Family - whose annual report cards were more fair and reasonable than such an Orwellian name might imply - will close at the end of 2009 after 14 years of watchdoggery. More »
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The Nation Institute on Media and Family have issued their annual Media Wise Video Game report card on how parents and the industry deal with game ratings, and once again the industry wins. More »
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The National Institute on Media and the Family officially released their Video Game Report Card today, the one we leaked yesterday. No surprises there, but today Patricia Vance, head of the Entertainment Software Rating Board, responded to their not so wonderful "grade" in the report. More »
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As we reported earlier tonight, a copy of the National Institute on Media and the Family's annual Media Wise Video Game Report Card leaked to us a day early shows that the video game industry is being given a mediocre C by the institute this year round for both "pushing the edge of the envelope in creativity and storytelling" and finding "creative new ways to market adult games on kids". The ESRB ratings meanwhile, will be awarded a C+ mostly because of the "Manhunt 2 rating debacle." More »
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Each year the helplessly out of touch National Institute for Media and the Family puts together a very brief buying guide for parents, hoping to help them steer clear of games that the institute sees as some sort of threat to family values and toward more wholesome games. This year's guide recommends games like Need For Speed: Pro Street last seen being promoted by naked Page 3 girls and 1990's classic Super Mario Bros. 3. Go NIMF: More »
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The National Institute of Media and Family and its partners have released a portion of their findings from a study of 60 U.S. retailers, showing that 46% of minors who attempted to purchase an M-rated game were successful doing so. Gamespot writes that the organization's annual report card on its Annual Sting Operation findings is due next month, a report I'm sure at least one of our commenters is looking forward to. More »
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The National Institute on Media and the Family is building an army of undercover agents/shoppers for their 11th Annual Video Game Report Card—the same event we talked about in today's TDIG, actually. Minors attempt to buy rated 'M' games, and if they are successful, the NIMF clearly documents the case and throws the smug youth in juvie...or something like that. More »
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Senator Joe Lieberman and NILF founder David Walsh presented the 11th Annual MediaWise Video Game Report Card today. The report card grades how well retailers and parents work towards making sure their kids are playing the right games. Retailers and console developers got the big thumbs up this year. Guess who didn't. More »
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I was just watching CNN when a short report on the National Institute on Media and the Family's annual video game report card hit. More »
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Game Politics reports that the ESRB struck back against NIMF with a grading scale of their own. If you recall, the ESRB was given pretty poor marks by NIMF and they've returned the favor. The ESRB awarded failing grades to NIMF in each of their four categories and an overall score of F. The categories were; Full Disclosure of Pertinent Facts, Research and Analysis, Documentation and Presentation of Evidence and Working Well With Others. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=142594&view=rss&microfeed=true It sounds like the PTA may be splitting from the increasingly over-zealous National Institute on Media and the Family. More »
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The Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association and ESRB is none too pleased with the National Institute of Media and the Family s report card grade the game rating system received. (Was that enough acronyms for you?) More »
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