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The US Supreme Court has ruled Monday that the law banning violent video games is unconstitutional, a decision that brought a significant victory to gamers and the whole gaming industry. The 7-2 vote of the judge panel declined to favor the law in the Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) case (formerly known as Schwarzenegger v. EMA) saying that "the act forbidding sale or rental of violent games to minors does not comport with the 1st Amendment."

In November the US Supreme Court will be considering oral arguments of the California state administration on whether its law which bans the sale of violent games to children is constitutional. The outcome may become decisive in a long war between video game industry and its critics who want such a law to be adopted on a national level.

Scientists have found the traits of people most likely to be affected by cruel video games and become hostile. Patrick M. Markey, Ph.D. an associate professor of psychology at Villanova University and Charlotte N. Markey, Ph.D. an associate professor at Rutgers University recently collaborated on a study entitled "Vulnerability to Violent Video Games: A Review and Integration of Personality Research."

Switzerland's National Council passed two new resolutions which have not been signed into the law yet to ban violent video games. Once these bills become laws franchises like Grand Theft Auto, God of War, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will be in the black list.