As leaders in the video game 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 more 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 of Microsoft's consumer products- MSN/Windows Live and Windows Vista, Windows 7, 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 real parents and teens as messengers, the Campaign inspires families to take simple, but important steps that can help ensure that their kids' media experiences are safer, healthy and more balanced.

The Get Game Smart Family Challenge incentivizes 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!

GetGameSmart.com provides tips and information from the nation's leading experts and organizations and gives parents the information and resources they need to manage media in their homes.

Find out more by visiting the Family Challenge.

Get Game Smart Ambassadors

A key part of the campaign, Microsoft selected its first Get Game Smart Ambassadors, a group of passionate parents and teens who are helping educate other families on ways to enjoy safter interactive entertainment at home. The Ambassadors represent families from eight cities across the country who, through their use of an interactive Web site, blog and online social community, are demonstrating their commitment to safer video gaming and inspiring their peers to tackle this issue. To read their tips on safer and more balanced video gaming and media use, 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.