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China Bans 50 Games

Posted by timothy on from the it's-an-unfree-county-bub dept.

Stargoat writes "The official mainland Chinese news agency, Xinhau, is reporting that China is banning 50 gaming titles. These titles include Battlefield Vietnam, The Sims 2, and FIFA 2005. A similar game banning event occurred six months ago in China, but not to this scale."

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  1. Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban. by nicklott · · Score: 4, Interesting
    which almost certainly show the Americans as the "good guys" and the communist North as the "bad guys"
    Actually, BFV is pretty even-handed in how it deals with this (the developers are Swedish not American). At no point is either side referred to as good or bad, (except in-game, from an enemy viewpoint) and China is not mentioned anywhere (though perhaps that's the problem. The version of events differs from the Official Chinese version). Possibly though EA's US-based marketing machine may have been handling it differently.
  2. Re:Really weird list of banned games... by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I live in Germany

    Speaking of bans, they mentioned during one of the Prince Dumbass (the guy who wore the Nazi outfit to the party) news blurbs about Germany's ban on the swastica. Do they grant waivers for things like history books? Or do they have to blur out the symbol in any historical photos, or something?

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