The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has published its research on video games and gaming (prepared by Cragg Ross Dawson), and interestingly, the findings are both expected and unexpected.

The research's focus to gain insight into the issues involved in playing video games are fairly simple. It set out to find the following:

* the attractions of playing video games
* the impact playing games has on players and on their behavior
* what players think about violence in some games
* whether the interactivity element of games alters the experience or not
* how players choose which games to play
* what parents think about video games