Censorship is a pervasive issue all across the world, but nowhere is it more evident than it is in China. Here, media content falls under extreme scrutiny before
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no different. China’s Ministry of Culture has, over the years, released public notices denouncing certain games for content-related issues—games such asBattlefield 4—banning them as well as admonishing them.
https://kotaku.com/battlefield-4-illegal-in-china-but-it-wasnt-for-sal-1490808375 Games can get banned by the Ministry of culture for a myriad of reasons. Sometimes these reasons are
so tenuous or intangible that they don’t really make sense. On top of that, ever since the “console ban” in 2000, console games
on the whole are technically not allowed in China: since consoles cannot be sold openly in the country, the ministry doesn’t inspect these games at all.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1491490947","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"kotaku-east","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"kotaku-east","TAGS":"grand-theft-auto","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); https://kotaku.com/why-are-consoles-banned-in-china-5587577 On the flipside, there have been games and consoles allowed for sale within the Middle Kingdom. Nintendo was able to release the N64, the Nintendo DS, and the 3DS in
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It’s not 100% clear what deems a game unfit for sale in China. The three official criteria are promoting gambling, promoting drugs, and portraying China in a bad light. These pretty much guarantee that Grand Theft Auto will never legally enter China. The following is a list of 39 games so “bad” that the Chinese government deemed it necessary to openly denounce them. The list is from 2011 and was originally “leaked” by Chinese gaming website 173173.com and gaming forum 3DGame.com
1) Call of Duty 2 2) CoD 4: Modern Warfare 3) CoD 5: World At War 4) CoD: Modern Warfare 2 5) Shellshock Nam ’67 6) Shellshock 2 Blood Trails 7-19) Everything related to Grand Theft Auto 20) Kane and Lynch: Dead Men 21) Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days 22) Mafia 23) Mafia 2 24) Saint’s Row 25) Saint’s Row 2 26) Total Overdose 27) True Crime: New York 28) Ture Crime: Streets of LA 29) Mercenaries 30) Mercenaries 2 31) 50 Cent: Bulletproof 32) 50 Cent: Blood on The Sand 33) Godfather 34) Godfather 2 35) Scarface 36) Crackdown 37 – 39) The whole Siren series. The following games aren’t listed but are publicly known to be banned in China. Command and Conquer: Generals Battlefield 4 Looking at the above list, the biggest “genre” that China seems to dislike are games related to organised crime. It’s interesting that the games on the public lists are mostly console games. There are lists of banned PC and mobile games, but they’re mostly related to gambling and the like. Ministry of Culture,3Dgame.com Kotaku East is your slice of Asian Internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Eric is a Beijing based writer and all around FAT man. You can contact him @[email protected] or follow him on Twitter @FatAsianTechie