Its funny how they are trying to ban "Gang" stuff when they are....well....sort of a gang themselves if you think about it.

China Bans *Insert Something Internet Related*

Banning thingings only makes them look stupid. Thought they figure that out by now.

And they think Americans are brainwashed...

To be honest, I almost agree with the released statements, but come on China... that's not the way to handle it.

Wow, China bans gang type games? So that must mean they must disban their commie government--no pun intended.

BTW, Doesnt anyone else think doing business with a communist government is risky and stupid? Cant figure out why the free world has anything to do with them...Oh, wait, sorry...cheap labor, Chinese business beats their employees...The free world businesses wish they could do that.

I gradually come to believe that Chinese intellectual elites are the obstacle for China to become free and democratic. The elites, who succeeded in school system and good at taking exams, despise Chinese proletariat and regard themselves as higher form of people who should dictate how others would live and think. I call it: exetasocracy.

Most Chinese intellectuals, who spend their early lives in textbooks and preparation for college exams, then seek gantry in either bureaucratic system or educational institutions knows nothing about real lives of people. Yet, they think they can make better decision for others.

Did Jack Thompson move to China or something?

he's their new Minister of Entertainment Culture and Vice...

The thought police doing their normal duties.

The problem is they view people as a resource to be cultivated and utilized. Anything that would detract from their productivity is a nuisance to be squashed.

Can anyone name a game where you RAPE people? I don't remember a Rape-Master series

Next up: China bans all violent video and computer games, followed by a ban on violent sports, followed by a ban on any activity that may or may not result in physical or emotional harm to another, followed by a ban on even thinking about anything even remotely considered "bad".

Big Brother is coming.

The China government is BAD, they treat their people like resources.

But the rules of the GOOD capitalism says: "make profit at all costs".
And all cost sometime (almost allways) means: "use cheap chinese labor to increase profit".

If the GOOD capitalists have any serious interest in improving the chinese's life they need to stop using them.

There are some Japanese Hentai games where you have choice to do so.

It would just be easier if China installed a big teletron inside each person's home with a big eye ball watching everyone. That way they could instantly jail anyone who dare to challenge their "authority."

You will respect my authoritor!

lol... I thought that is what UK is doing. They basically have camera watching every single corner of streets in London...lol

Violence in gaming has been a problem for a while. I can understand why they want to ban it, like those conservative/religulous groups/parties in the States or other countries are trying to do. But a lot of time, it is not problem of the idea, it is the problem of the method they used/are using.
Hidding your head in the sand is usually not a very good way to deal with problems.... and being a control freak is usually making things even worse...

somewhere i can see this as reasonable.
Lines are fading and yes computer games are getting more and more violent if only just a bit more then the last one since violence sells.
If games are getting more realistic and violent the people playing those games will shift there perception of what is normal (this goes for anything really but more for multiplayer games then in example films or mtv).

Some one has to draw the line somewhere ...
Yes the internet should be free and all information on it should be legit but the stuff that is released as a game now days crosses lines and banning them has nothing to do with freedom of information and there is no right to freedom of moronic entertainment.

George Orwell: 1984.

This "game banning" goes back and has a tell-tale sign of the banning of rock and roll back in the 50's. I can even remember back in the 70's religious fanatics knocing on my parents door handing out pamphlets telling people they should not listen to the devils music. Hog-wash now days but they tried. I remember when they tried to arrest that rapper for bad launguage back in the 80's. I dont like rap but there is a thing called freedom of speech...

Still waiting for "China Bans Free Thought"

What stinks is game companies will start making watered-down games just so they can get into the Chinese marketplace, which consists of 1.3 BILLION people...

Let's try an experiment.

1)Name our top 10 games of 2008 or 2009.
2)Count how many of them which do not invlove any form of killing and destruction.

hmm... is that answer very surprising?

china makes me laugh
ban this, ban that, internet censorship this, control that!
im glad i live in a country with a sane government

"Mom!!!!!! Where is my Grand Theft Auto 4 video game?!?"
"The Police came in and confiscated it son.They are making a crack down on anything gang related"
"Damn now i gotta go get it on Mininova or Piratebay"

China isn't a communist nation anymore, they are ultra-capitalist. Their people are resources to be exploited and then discarded when they are no longer useful. Having the people think for themselves is an obstacle for the government, that's why they're censoring everything. Once the money stops flowing there will you see any real change.

China ban WoW, America freaks out!

Na... in the US.. only the Blizzard will freak out.
It is the players in China will freak out. Just think about how many people are playing WoW in China each day (not sure it is true or not... a website said there are more than a million WoW players located in China).

LOL to damn funny , and saddly true

if you can name it it'sgood chance the chinese goverment baned it because "it corupts the youth"

Woah..Chinese government keep banning stuff. What are they up to?

It will be a terrible mistake if they ban WoW.

I call Bs on the part about games getting more violent , seriously the most violent game ever was, postal 2, which is now a good 6-7 years old. Nothing I have seen in the last 5 years has topped it , granted Running with Scissors is working on a postal 3 , but keep in mind also that postal is a game that is only as violent as you make it (meaning you can go through the game with out ever committing any acts of violence).

Further more 'line" drawing sounds to me like a bunch of asses telling us game developers what we can and can't do with our art, and as long as we have ratings board set up that will not fly. All violent games are either rated M for mature or AO for adult only, quit trying to control our artistic freedom , and start coming down on stores for not properly idling kids buying games that are rated M or AO. That is how things are supposed to work in a "free" country you can’t just shut down our artistic rights and freedoms, because you don't like what we make.

now before you start blasting me with your neo nazi right wing conservative grade-A bull shit, i'd like it made clear , i don't agree with making games violent fort eh sake of violence , but i strongly advocate that if something fits with in a deccent context of a story it should not get " banned " otu right. i've watched several movies about the Sylvia Likens torture slaying incident in 1965 every one of those movies were far more graphic than any thing in a game , yet now one has issues with these movies due to the fact these movies are bringing to light a very tragic and real horor story, the violence in those movies are in context with the story the movies are telling. so why should this be any different for for game developer's stories ? why should we get persecuted over our art having relevant violence when the GAME IS marketed to adults not kids.