p2pnet news view Freedom | Games:- Chinese censors have halted the sale of 45 foreign computer games, and 26 domestic online games, including the massive multiplayer text-based RPG gangster and Mafia game, Omerta.

The crackdown comes, “ahead of National Day on October 1,” says the Shanghai Daily.

According to the country’s General Administration of Press and Publication, the overseas games contained, “pornography, violence and gambling,” and the domestic games had, “added illegal content or gambling functions after obtaining approval”.

“The GAPP also ordered 27 Internet companies to stop providing online platforms for illegal games, and urged online game designers to install anti-addiction systems in their products,” says the story.

“Meanwhile, China’s Ministry of Culture said 5.48 million illegal publications had been confiscated during the first six months of the year …”

More than 21.72 million, “illegal video and audio products and 21,681 electronic games machines had been seized,” it adds.

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Shanghai Daily – Illegal games sales stopped, September 1, 2009

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