Poor Germans. This is really too much.

oh world, what will you come up with next.

I've just been in germany like 45 minutes ago... I'm back in Holland thoug again, hope they won't pass that nasty ban virus to us. If something like this will happen I will move out to some place else..... how's the market for media design in US? :P

Germany has always been a strange one with its 'index' on videogames. For instance Rockstar could have released the original uncensored version of Manhunt 2 there, it would not have been rated but it could have been sold quite legally in that form (but not advertised or displayed in stores etc), whereas in the UK the game is not rated by the BBFC and it instantly becomes illegal to sell or buy it.

This is very uncool. What's up with denying violence exists? Germans are currently engaged in the shit that they want to ban in video games. This is one of the good things about living the US. That shit would not fly here. It wouldn't even flutter. It would self destruct before it was even finished being written.

This is another stupid anti-gaming move by the German government, utterly pathetic. Instead of embracing the modern world they are burying it with this censorship.

I also find it ironic that the Germans are some of the most dedicated gamers, German clans and fansites are from what I understand very big and well organised.

Thats fucking lame. Censorship FTL

Poland invited Germany over for punch, nothing bad happened, check with Poland! SIE WERDEN SICH HINSETZEN, SIE WERDEN RUHIG SEIN, SIE WERDEN NICHT BELEIDIGEN DEUTSCHLAND!!!

Godwin'd.

Uh, same old story.

Our politics have always been crazy about violence. I'm waiting for the day, when every last bit of violence is forbidden and some kid shoots up his school. What are they going to blame next? Porn?

Well, thank God there are imports.

Also, the text is very inaccurate and open for interpretation. Basically, everything that has violence in it, falls under it. From FPS to RTS titles. Yay!

How can a government deny an adult to play games? Traurig, my dear Deutschland. And the rest of Europe, in search of something to be afraid of, might also end up looking for everybody's favorite digital scape goat.
The only way to change that is for the gamer community to speak up outside its niche and to the mainstream media. Politicians look at the game boxes and a couple of violent snapshots and that's all they know about games..Oh! And that games are a "Kids"thing.

I don't know if germany really wants to extend it's censorship laws beyond Germany itself, but at first I must be an obnoxious ass and point out that "Killerspiele" (with a capital first letter since it's a noun) is the plural and that the article should use "Killerspiel" instead because, if I read correctly, it refers on to one game to stand for all when it is released.

Other then that... censorship. A topic equaled in explosiveness amongst various communities only by ratings, Jack Thompson and horribly, gory crimes. Whilst I do think that there should be some level of control because moronic children and teens always think it's cool to buy games not intended for them and shoot everything into a bloody pulp, I don't think you should completely ban shooter games. They are a way of releasing stress (my personal opinion wants me to add "stupid" to that statement, but never mind me), and jut suffer from bad PR because they're frequently abused by lunatics and used as a scapegoat for possibly undefeatable problems within out society. Also, blaming video games seems to have become a sport amongst news channels and mass media, since they are always mentioned in glaring detail whislt other issues, for example the fact that the "Mortal Kombat Murderers" were completely drunk, are disregarded although they give the thing a totally different spin.

However, I don't think that the brutal, mindless slaughter of six millions of people (people who dies in the resulting war not counted) is nothing to be "hailed" by making a game about it. I don't say we should forget it and just go on, but I don't think making a game out of it is appropriate.