The International Red Cross isn't against allowing players to go against the established laws of armed conflict in their video game battles — it just wants to make sure those violations don't go unpunished.

Virtual war crimes won't lead to real world prosecution, the International Committee of the Red Cross clarified today.

One of the world's largest and most respected humanitarian groups in the world is investigating whether the Geneva and Hague conventions should be applied to the fictional recreation of war in video games.