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Nah, it doesn't really make sense. The Germans have a thing they call "Indizierung" (verb: Indizieren, which I'm about to use). Basically, the Indizierung prohibits advertisements for that game. And games get indiziert when they're too violent or too mature. They still can be sold, but not to people under 18 and the games can't be on the shelves. That's why many developers create a softened version of their games, with green blood for example and no gore at all, so they can still get sales and all that.
Now for the actual new law: Whenever someone shoots someone and has, at some point in his life, played a video game and/or watched a horrormovie, every gamer gets deemed a potential spree killer and everybody yells that the games must be banned. It has been the same when Erfurt occured and nothing really happened. Now that ResistantX shot at people they're crying again. And the Bayern (aka. Bavarians) as well as the Niedersachsen (= Lower Saxons) - who thinks these translations up anyways - are the first to yell since they're known to be very conservative states.
So what's going to happen now? People are going to yell, eventually everything will die down apart from a couple of lunatics who still yell. But nobody will listen. Nothing will happen and when the next Spreekiller does his shtick, the same thing is going to happen over and over again.
Besides, if you really want those games, you can still order them online from Switzerland, because we don't have an Indizierung or anything else of that nature.
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