According to the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), which regulates most Chinese media, the agency stopped the sales of 45 foreign 26 domestic online games that featured porn, violence or gambling.
Chief among the banned is Omerta, an online role-playing game that features a mafia setting and lots of violence and sex, but no pictures. It's entirely text-based.
According to online sources, the GAPP is casting a wide net to catch offending games. According to one Beijing-based news outlet, over 80 percent of browser-based game companies have been called in for meetings with GAPP officials.
The crackdown on Internet-based games follows a much more massive crackdown on an online adult company that boasted more than 12 million members. The company was called the Dikamin “league,” or affiliate program.
Chinese authorities targeted the Dikamin league based on the suspicion that it was serving Chinese customers from a foreign server. XBIZ tracked the Dikamin servers back to a Grand Avenue address in downtown Los Angeles.
