<\/o><\/p>\n\u201cAs a leader in interactive entertainment, it has been our priority to innovate and improve our Family Settings technology to help parents worldwide manage their children\u2019s video gaming and online experiences,\u201d said Jeff Bell, corporate vice president of Global Marketing for the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft. <\/o><\/p>\nIn addition, the European study found that content of games and the time spent playing video games are important issues to parents. Similarly, in the U.S., 66 percent of parents have rules about the amount of time their kids can spend playing video games and 86 percent have rules about the type of content their kids have access to. <\/o><\/p>\nThe Xbox 360 Family Timer is an addition to the console\u2019s existing set of industry-leading parental control features. Similar to the parental controls in the Windows Vista operating system, the new Xbox 360 Family Timer can restrict children\u2019s activity time.. Helpful notifications will appear to warn gamers that the session is nearing the end so they have sufficient time to save their game, and the feature will automatically turn off the console when the predetermined time limit has been exceeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Microsoft releases it’s free “Family Timer” over Xbox Live and parent groups praise Microsoft for it – they should, it’s a decent idea with one major flaw obvious to anyone who loves video games. Think about it and the way video games play. Often games require players to either manually save their game or to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Microsoft releases it’s free “Family Timer” over Xbox Live and parent groups praise Microsoft for it – they should, it’s a decent idea with one major flaw obvious to anyone who loves video games. Think about it and the way video games play. Often games require players to either manually save their game or to find elusive save points. Time lost when that “Family Timer” goes off could range from 5 minutes of play to an hour. GamerDad has a better suggestion: WHY NOT BE INVOLVED AND ENFORCE TIME LIMITS PERSONALLY? (Exception: Parents stuck at work – but for them GamerDad doesn’t recommend access to video games when you’re not “in the vicinity”.) And Media Wise cites “parent\/child conflict over video games” to be a “growing concern.” Sheesh! Click here for the full Microsoft press release:<\/p>\n