January 17, 2007, 10:05 AM — Violent video games could be outlawed across the European Union, following calls for a clampdown among E.U. justice ministers this week.
Germany, which took over the six month rotating presidency of the Union at the beginning of this month, is leading the initiative but the European Commission has also been pushing for more control of video game violence.
"A certain degree of linkage between the growing violence among the younger generation and the growing diffusion of violent games exists,
