Bulletstorm game censored in Germany

February 9th, 2011

Video game Bulletstorm will be released in heavily-censored form in Germany. Regulators will remove several features from the full version, including blood, dismemberment and “ragdoll effects”. This censorship will be imposed even though the game has attracted a USK18+ certificate. Germany has previously considered introducing a national ban on violent games, but this plan was ultimately aborted.

Web petition stalls German videogame ban

July 29th, 2009

German government plans to ban violent videogames will have to be put on hold, after a successful internet petition by German gamers. The e-petition, hosted on the official forums of the Bundestag, the German parliament, has passed the 50,000 signatures necessary to force a government review. Last month the country’s 16 interior ministers called for a ban on the creation and distribution of games involving violent acts against human or human-like characters. Read more here