{"id":63589,"date":"2014-04-23T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T08:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63589"},"modified":"2014-04-23T10:19:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T08:19:13","slug":"china-lists-new-restrictions-on-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/63589-china-lists-new-restrictions-on-video-games","title":{"rendered":"China lists new restrictions on video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With China set to permanently <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61266-china-unbans-foreign-video-game-console-sales.html\">lift its 13-year ban on consoles<\/a>, the Chinese government has released a list featuring which gaming content will not be allowed in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The banned content is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gambling-related content or game features;<\/li>\n<li>Anything that violates China\u2019s constitution;<\/li>\n<li>Anything that threatens China\u2019s national unity, sovereignty, or territorial integrity;<\/li>\n<li>Anything that harms the nation\u2019s reputation, security, or interests;<\/li>\n<li>Anything that instigates racial\/ethnic hatred, or harms ethnic traditions and cultures;<\/li>\n<li>Anything that violates China\u2019s policy on religion by promoting cults or superstitions;<\/li>\n<li>Anything that promotes or incites obscenity, drug use, violence, or gambling;<\/li>\n<li>Anything that harms public ethics or China\u2019s culture and traditions;<\/li>\n<li>Anything that insults, slanders, or violates the rights of others;<\/li>\n<li>Other content that violates the law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Games must be submitted for approval to the \u201cculture department in charge\u201d &#8211; the local Shanghai government culture department &#8211; and the approval process\u00a0will not take longer than 20 days.<\/p>\n<p>New in-game content (DLC, for example) will need to be submitted and go through the same approval process, even if the game itself was already previously approved.<\/p>\n<p>Games that are not approved will be returned with the reason for their rejection clearly stated.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, foreign companies are allowed to produce and sell game consoles in China, although they do have to work with a local partner and operate out of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone.<\/p>\n<p>Given that your console at home says &#8220;Made in China&#8221; on the bottom, be glad the restrictions are limited to the Asian country only.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the restrictions list above, I see the Chinese market missing out on a few games in the future.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesinasia.com\/china-releases-censorship-rules-for-console-games-and-there-are-a-lot-of-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">GamesinAsia<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63449-watch-dogs-will-look-great-on-next-gen-consoles.html\">Watch Dogs will look great on next-gen consoles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63443-phishers-target-world-or-warcraft-fans.html\">Phishers target World of Warcraft fans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63399-batman-arkham-knight-screenshot-bonanza.html\">Batman: Arkham Knight screenshot bonanza<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be glad you live in liberal South Africa, a land where games are free to express themselves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":63591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1911,11920],"class_list":["post-63589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-china","tag-console-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63593,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63589\/revisions\/63593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}