Violent Video Games to be Banned

**Red_Lizard2** · 06-09-09, 08:12 PM

Okay, so the title is written mostly to scare more people into reading the topic, but it still related i promise!

Apparently in Germany they are planning to pass legislation which would make all violent video games illegal over there (Would this affect Gumby?)

http://uk.videogames.games.yahoo.com/blog/article/3870/

The online edition of German news magazine Der Spiegel has revealed that interior ministers urged against ‘Killerspiele' (killer games) during a conference held last Friday. Although details are only being shared in English via online translations such as this, it seems clear that German ministers are now serious about preventing another incident like Winnenden on 11 March where a 17-year-old shot 15 people. The previous evening the shooter had been playing the game "Far Cry 2".

Spiegel Online details that the ministers have appealed for "an explicit production and dissemination ban as soon as possible", preventing the development and distribution of all games considered to be violent within Germany.

The Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK) software ratings board already stands in the way of many violent games being released in Germany. The blockbuster "Gears of War" series for Xbox 360 is among them. However the key issue with the latest appeal to the Bundestag, the German equivalent of the British Parliament, is that violent videogames may not be produced on German soil. This would be hard on German based developer Crytek, coincidentally responsible for the original "Far Cry".

**asianator365** · 06-09-09, 08:15 PM

Fucking Europeans. And people want this country to become MORE like them?

**Big_Boze** · 06-09-09, 09:26 PM

Wow, that's interesting.

Fourtunetly here, we have been hearing that bullshit since doom came out so I'm not all that worried about it personally

If they decide to come take my CS:S away, then that means they would probably have already come to take my guns away, which means... well I'll leave that to your imagination.

**Red_Lizard2** · 06-09-09, 09:32 PM

The best thing about it is how apparently its due to the fact that a kid shot 15 people after playing Far Cry 2 the prior evening.

No that one evening was TOTALLY what caused him to go shoot people, riiighhhtttttt

**Tick** · 06-09-09, 11:39 PM

Germany is fucking retarded. You can get sent to jail just for talking about Nazis, so this doesn't surprise me in the least. Do what's best for the people, even if they don't want it.

**LOMAR** · 06-09-09, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by Tick

Germany is fucking retarded. You can get sent to jail just for talking about Nazis, so this doesn't surprise me in the least. Do what's best for the people, even if they don't want it.

what the government THINKS is the best