Score one for little gamers and Xbox Live parties everywhere.  Kids you can still play your violent video games.  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the video games industry in a case that called for the ban of violent games to children in the state of California.  Their ruling states that video games fall under First Amendment protection.

“Like protected books, plays, and movies, video games communicate ideas through familiar literary devices and features distinctive to the medium. And ‘the basic principles of freedom of speech . . . do not vary’ with a new and different communication medium,” said the court.

“This is a historic and complete win for the First Amendment and the creative freedom of artists and storytellers everywhere. Today, the Supreme Court affirmed what we have always known – that free speech protections apply every bit as much to video games as they do to other forms of creative expression like books, movies and music,” said Michael D. Gallagher, president and CEO of the ESA, which represents the U.S. computer and video game industry.

What say you?