live by the creed!
Extract the dual hidden blades of 15th Century assassin Ezio Auditore in Assassin's Creed II, a game that expands upon the original in every way you'd hoped. Click here for our full review!
More Modern Warfare!
The follow-up to Call of Duty 4 does plenty of little things better than its predecessor but is unfortunately marred by one incredibly bad decision. Find out why.
Build your own HD HTPC!
AusGamers understands the economic woes of our time, but don't want you to miss out on great HD home entertainment either. So check out our 'DYI' HD HTPC guide!
Aussie Game Dev Abroad!
Aussies are responsible for more than you might think in worldwide game development, we aim to introduce you to them. Meet Double Fine's Emily Ridgway!
Post by trog @ 09:52am 09/07/09 | 13 Comments
You can't make this stuff up! In the fight against killer video games, apparently some local governments in Germany are taking a hardline policy against violent video games like Counter-Strike (and even Warcraft?!) from being played. GotFrag have the story:
The past year, Germany has been plagued with large amounts of school shootings. They have mostly gone unexplained and that is the reason the Government decided to step in. Different local governments in Germany have decided to BAN all "killer" games at LAN events. This sadly has lead to the cancellation of multiple ESL Friday Night games, and it has now claimed the Convention-X-Treme tournament.
There's also this awkward automatic translation of the news page of one of the LAN parties which is worth a read.
Tags: germany


Latest Comments
The Match Fixer
Posted 02:48pm 09/7/09
and here i was thinking they canceled the LANs due to the murder in German court sparking Egyptian fury

3dee
Posted 03:24pm 09/7/09
and here i was thinking they canceled the LANs due to insurance...

DYSWIDT?!?!?!

last edited by 3dee at 15:24:00 09/Jul/09
ViscoS
Posted 03:31pm 09/7/09
Guess this means no more videos from that angry german kid?
The GuVna
Posted 03:34pm 09/7/09
Finally some initiative for banning counter-strike at lans
trog
Posted 03:40pm 09/7/09
Finally some initiative for banning counter-strike at lans
it's hard to be too critical, eh
Crash
Posted 03:55pm 09/7/09
Finally some initiative for banning counter-strike at lans
That made me lol.
Spook
Posted 04:48pm 09/7/09
im all for banning lans that play wow
Tollaz0r!
Posted 06:26pm 09/7/09
Hay we should ban the violent video games here too, that way we can stop all the school shooting going on here.



O wait.
Fireblood
Posted 07:01pm 09/7/09
Riiiighhhttt so cut off the poor loner nerds from what little social interaction they have?! So they become more socially-retarded? Sure thats going to work.....
thermite
Posted 07:30pm 09/7/09
If this censorship thing goes ahead in Australia you could be looking at sites like AusGamers having to stop talking about WWII and Terrorist games.
Mantorok
Posted 07:33pm 09/7/09
On the subject of net censorship: http://www.censordyne.com.au/
thermite
Posted 07:34pm 09/7/09
There's already a thread on that Mantarook. http://qgl.ausforums.com/index.php/439207/?agn=thread&id=2762570
HERMITech
Posted 08:48pm 09/7/09
im all for banning lans that playwow

Fixed for accuracy
You must be logged in to post a comment. Log in now!
13 Comments
Show
 

What is your preferred gaming platform?






    Discuss this poll!

Log In
User:  
Pass:  



Advertise with Us | Privacy Policy | Contact Us
© Copyright 2001-2009 AusGamers™ Pty Ltd. ACN 093 772 242.
A Mammoth Media web development.