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Swiss vote on violent games

Motion passed in National Council
Petter Mårtensson 22 March 2010

Surely, killing zombies must be ok? Consider the alternatives! Who will think of the children, left in a zombie apocalypse wasteland?!

GamesIndustry.biz reports (registration needed) that the Swiss National Council has passed a motion that will make it possible to ban any game that "requires cruel acts of violence against humans and human-like creatures for in-game success". Exactly how the law will look in the end is up to the government to decide. The country's Christian Democratic Party has also put forward a motion to ban all first person shooters that are labeled 16+ or 18+ by the PEGI.

As mentioned, the exact wording of the law is yet to be formalized, but the citizens of Switzerland can oppose it - if they prove that there is enough opposition against it.

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