Video games and their potential for causing photo sensitive epileptic seizures is to be the subject of a House of Commons debate in t🍌he UK after a long campaign by a mum whose son suffered a first time fit while playing the Nintendo DS version of Rayman Raving Rabbids. You can read about the.

The mum, Gaye Herford, wants new 'safety-testing' laws for videogames that would make it a legal requirement for game makers to ensure their games contain no scenes that could trigger a seizure.ꦿ Currently, publishers only include epilepsy warnings for games voluntarily.

If the UK l🔥aw changes, it would bring video games in line with TV and film, both of which are already required by law to be screened for any risk of causing photo-sensitive epilepsy s𓃲eizures.

The House of Commons ꦏdebate is still to be scheduled.