As leaders in the video gaming industry, it's Microsoft's goal to provide parents with tools and resources to manage their children's gaming and entertainment experiences so that they can play in safer, healthy and balanced ways.

Microsoft is proud to have led the effort to create and build in safety measures that enable parents to choose the right games, content and online access settings for their families. Xbox was the first video game and entertainment system on the market with built-in parental control systems. Virtually all the consumer products that Microsoft offers - MSN/Windows Live and Windows Vista, Xbox 360 and Zune - feature family safety features.

This commitment to families is taken to the next level through the Get Game Smart Campaign.

Get Game Smart Family Challenge

The Get Game Smart Campaign is a new approach to helping parents and their children get on the same page about making smart media choices.

Using new methods and messengers, the Campaign inspires families to take simple, but important steps that can help ensure that their kids' media experiences are safer, healthy and balanced.

The Get Game Smart Family Challenge offers incentives for parents and kids to work together on fun activities that will improve their knowledge about gaming and online safety, and help them create household agreements for media use ...along with easy ways to enforce them!

The Campaign Web site provides tips and information from the nation's leading experts and organizations. This site gives parents the information and resources they need to manage media in their homes.

Find out more by visiting the Family Challenge.

Video Contest & Get Game Smart Ambassadors

A key part of the Campaign will be using new messengers to reach families. Who better to educate parents and teens on ways to agree on media use than other moms, dads and teens? Microsoft is searching for parent and teen teams to serve as Get Game Smart Ambassadors. These teams will be selected through a nationwide video contest (Voting ends May 15, 2009) in which parent/teen teams submit videos on how their families approach balanced media use and safety in their homes.

To view the video finalists, please click here.

Our Partners

Microsoft is proud to work with its many partners on this important new initiative. For more information visit Microsoft's Web site.