In-game violence to be banned in Germany

After the tragic attack of Sebastian Bosse in the town of Emsdetten placed on the Dutch border, in which Bosse attacked and wounded 37 people that were in his former school at the time, the violence was blamed on Bosse’s addiction to Counter Strike, the famous PC video game. Regarding this Günther Beckstein the Bavarian intern minister declared that there is no doubt this violent game had tremendous effect upon Bosse’s already unstable mind this leading to the regrettable incident at Emsdetten.

As a reaction to this “status quo” a law proposal was launched that states any violence in games “on humans or human-looking characters.” should be punished by fines and/or up to one year of prison time. This applies to both gamers and producers! As a natural response gaming companies are preparing protests against these drastic measures.

For the moment the situation is uncertain and the way things look like it will be so for a while. The way I see it violence in games in not worse than what you see on TV in movies or on the 5′o’clock news. In fact some say that you release negative energy and frustration trough games, it seems not everybody thinks so…

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Posted in Games by Bogdan Popa