UPDATE:

The Electronic Software Association, issued a statement to IGN following President Donald Trump's meeting with members of the gaming industry and members of congress. The ESA said its members "appreciate the President’s receptive and comprehensive approach" to the meeting, which covered First Amendment protection of games, the ESRB rating system, and more.

“We welcomed the opportunity today to meet with the President and other elected officials at the White House. We discussed the numerous scientific studies establishing that there is no connection between video games and violence, First Amendment protection of video games, and how our industry’s rating system effectively helps parents make informed entertainment choices. We appreciate the President’s receptive and comprehensive approach to this discussion.”

The full statement reads:Original story follows:

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The White House has published its 'violent video game' reel that President Trump shared at today's meeting with members of the video game industry and critics of the medium.According to The Washington Post, Trump showed the reel at the beginning of the meeting, and asked the group: "this is violent, isn't it?"The sizzle reel, shared on The White House's YouTube channel , features clips from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (predictably, its 'No Russian sequence), Wolfenstein , Dead by Daylight, Sniper Elite, and Fallout 4.They were handpicked for their particularly violent sequences, but presented in a montage with lack of context.Trump's meeting was organized in the wake of the Florida shooting that sparked a conversation on the causes of youth violence, with Trump focusing on violence in video games. In attendance were Members of Congress Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Representative Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri, and Representative Martha Roby (R-Alabama).External Participants included Mr. Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two Interactive (Former Chairman of ESA), CEO of Take-Two Interactive, Mr. Brent Bozell, Media Research Center, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman (Ret.), "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society" and "Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing", Ms. Patricia Vance, President of Entertainment Software Rating Board, Mr. Mike Gallagher, President and CEO of the Entertainment Software Association, Mr. Robert Altman, Chairman and CEO of ZeniMax Media (parent company of Bethesda Softworks, and Melissa Henson, Mother from Parents Television Council.According to Melissa Henson, program director for the Parents Television Council (via The Washington Post), the meeting was “respectful but contentious." The ESA put out a statement saying that its representatives focused on the many studies that disprove the correlation between real world violence and video games."We discussed the numerous scientific studies establishing that there is no connection between video games and violence, First Amendment protection of video games, and how our industry’s rating system effectively helps parents make informed entertainment choices," the ESA said.The renewed conversation around video game violence began on February 22nd , a week after the Florida shootings on the 14th. “I’m hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people’s thoughts," Trump said. "And then you go the further step, and that’s the movies. You see these movies, and they’re so violent, and yet a kid is able to see the movie if sex isn’t involved, but killing is involved, and maybe they have to put a rating system for that.”For everything the US government has said since the Florida shootings, here's our full timeline . We've reached out to attending members of the ESA for more, and will update this story if and when we get a response.

Lucy O'Brien is Games & Entertainment Editor at IGN’s Sydney office. Follow her on Twitter.