Being a gamer I have read many stories saying how gaming is bad for you. Politicians and do-gooders seem to think it’s an easy target to get the uninformed masses in uproar and to receive the blame for all society’s ills.

To be honest, I’m fed up of it! Witness the recent outcry over Mass Effect where someone opened her mouth about a game she later admitted she knew nothing about. Gordon Brown has been reported saying he will be looking into the use of knives by characters in video games - there goes my Wood Elf in Oblivion!

There are programmes on TV that I will not let my children watch, yet I hear of other children (younger than mine) watching them despite the poisonous messages and crude supposed humor. The storylines of soaps make me cringe yet I don’t see any outcry over them.

So it was a nice change to read Sid Meier’s observations at the end of this interview from the BBC