After yesterday’s debacle with Keith Vaz and the Daily Mail over Modern Warfare 2, one of the MP’s that stood up for the gaming industry starts a Facebook group that is gathering a head of steam.Gaming voice was created by Tom Watson, the MP that put Vaz in his place yesterday during a Q + A session in Parliament and has already got over 5,000 users joined, including industry professionals, developers and even gamers overseas supporting the cause.  Gaming voice is designed to try and create a pressure group that will be able to voice its concerns to the media and Parliament directly, allowing direct talks to those concerned in order to set the record straight and try to introduce idea that would help take the sting away from the gaming industry in this country.

Speaking after the Culture, Media and Sports Questions session, Watson, MP for West Bromwich East, told GamesIndustry.biz: “I’ve thought about [creating a group] for a while, but I was so incensed by yet another Daily Mail article that I just pinged it up there to gauge reaction. And frankly, 400 people in what, four hours, I’ve been slightly taken aback by it.” The group had over 750 members at the time of writing.

“There is a legitimate debate about how you handle difficult content. What we’ve really got to do is educate these young MPs to realise the scale of the industry and the cultural significance of the industry, because they’ve just had three years of Keith battering on about the industry, about the content.”

If you want to show your support then please join the group here and air your views.  MG can say that we are behind this 100%