Prime Minister Gordon Brown is said to be “very worried” about games. Once again he has aired his concerns over violent video games as he launched a crackdown on knife crime, reports The Sun.

He told the tabloid: “I am very worried about video and computer games. No one wants censorship or an interfering State. But the industry has some responsibility to society and needs to exercise that.”

This isn’t the first time Brown has linked games to violent crime – he has already said that “Parents are concerned” about “harmful violence and sexual imagery in games and on the internet,” and how they affect children.

Could this mean, soon we will have no more knife kills on COD 4? No more dog tags in BF2142? Or could it mean developers will get clever and replace a knife with a Banana or something equally ludicrous?

Should it not be a responsibility of parents to observe what their children play, and if they feel their child has a reaction to a game to take it away? Could it just be that Video Gaming is being a scape goat for other social issues?