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Banned because the object of the game is to stalk and rape a woman and her two daughters, at least one of whom appears to be underage,56789 but in 2. AustraliaeditBrazil has banned many video games since 1. It is illegal to distribute and sell these games, but it is still legal to own a copy. Name. Reason. Bully. Banned for showing violence and harassment in a school setting. The ban was lifted on 2. June, 2. 01. 6 game can now be acquired in physical and non physical format through Steam. Counter Strike. Banned because of violence and simulating the favela map in 2. The ban was later lifted and game is now available for sale. Ever. Quest. Banned because of Australias X1. The ban has been mostly lifted since 2. Minas Gerais. Grand Theft Auto Episodes from Liberty City. Banned in Barueri because it uses music by the Brazilian composer Hamilton da Silva Loureno without proper permissions. It has been resolved and lifted since 2. Additionally, the Brazils Department of Justice, Rating, Titles and Qualification requires that all video games be rated by the organization. Unrated titles are de facto banned from being sold in Brazil. Although, it usually does not extend to digital platforms, not even for the banned titles. A very large number of video games are banned in the Peoples Republic of China. Games that contain drugs, sexual themes, blood, depictions of organized crime or the defaming of the Chinese government are almost always banned from sale. Because of the large size of the Chinese video game market, many studios will edit the content of their games to conform to the governments standards. Home gaming consoles were banned in mainland China from June 2. Xbox One and Play. Station 4 in the country. Notable games banned in that region are Name. Reason. Battlefield 4. Banned due to the discrediting of Chinas national image as well as a threat to national security, in which the Chinese Ministry claims that the game shows it a cultural invasion. Grand Theft Auto. Banned because the game was unsuitable for children. Command Conquer Generals. Banned for smearing the image of China and the Chinese army although the game presents China as a quasi protagonist, as well as glorifying the Peoples Liberation Army. Additionally, the China campaign has the player destroy questionable targets such as the Three Gorges Dam and the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in order to snuff out an invading terrorist organization. Football Manager 2. Banned for recognizing Taiwan and Tibet as independent countries. An edited version was later released globally. Hearts of Iron. Banned for portraying Tibet, Sinkiang, and Manchuria as independent countries and Taiwan as under Japanese control. I. G. I. 2 Covert Strike. Banned because of intentionally blackening China and the Chinese armys image. Rapelay. Banned because it tends to promote and support the use of violence to compel a person to submit to sexual conduct, and the exploitation of young persons for sexual purposes. No video games have ever been banned in Cuba, but few games were sold in that country until 2. In 2. 01. 0, the video game Call of Duty Black Ops gained much controversy as there is a mission where the player attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro, only to end up killing a double. DenmarkeditEA Sports MMA was not released in Denmark because of a law prohibiting marketing for energy drinks, which EA chose not to remove from the game. Although distribution is not illegal and the game can still be found on shelves as an import. GermanyeditA video game can be banned in Germany if it has been confiscated by court order because it violates a section of the Strafgesetzbuch criminal code. Private possession and thus playing it and acquisition such as downloading a demo from the Internet is still legal, but any dissemination is not. The seller would break the law if a sale took place, not the buyer. On December 1. 0, 2. German court Oberlandesgericht Hamm decided that a single sale of a single copy does not qualify as dissemination. Install Architectural Shingles Hip Roof there. Unlike indexing by the BPj. M, which restricts the sale of all content equal versions, the versions that are confiscated are enumerated in the court order. Being put on the index by the BPj. M or, since April 1, 2. USK does not equal a ban. Rather, it imposes strict trade restrictions on the title. While only very few games have been confiscated, the list of indexed games is very long. In December 2. 00. Emsdetten school shooting, Bavaria and Lower Saxony proposed legislation, to be presented to the national parliament, that would make even playing any game that feature cruel violence on humans or human looking characters an offence punishable with fines or jail time of up to 1. Volksverhetzung agitation of the people, and 1. In the official lists, these three sections are always bundled, so any game that contains swastika flags andor any depiction of Adolf Hitler is listed alongside racist propaganda pieces. This means, that the import or purchase and the possession for personal use are still legal for persons over 1. In the case of video games that contain pornography with children or minors, where a real or realistic event is depicted, the possession of the video game or working towards possessing it would be illegal under 1. St. GB. Otherwise, if the work depicts a fictitious event, the distribution of such material is illegal. In August 2. 00. 8, Sega confirmed that The House of the Dead Overkill and Mad. World would not be released in Germany,3. USK. 3. 6 Sega also announced in November 2. Aliens vs. Predator for similar reasons. A Beschlagnahmung ban is enforced for a minimum of ten years, after which a request for review may be submitted. Although the bans usually dont extend to the digital versions, local versions are still toned down in depictions of violence and similar content to be classified by the USK without any rulings. No known games have been banned in Greece. A law banning all electronic games in public places was passed in 2. Iran typically bans any game that contains violence, depicts cruelty, features strong sexual content, nudity, and a negative portrayal of the Middle East. Battlefield 3 was banned because of a fictional U. S. invasion on Tehran. Already prior to the ban, many retail stores were removing copies of the said game from their shelves. Pokmon Go was banned due to security reasons. Valkyrie Drive Bhikkhuni was banned because of excessive themes of glorifying homosexual and immoral values. It does not extend to digital distribution however, kind of ironic in terms that half of the Steam library is blocked in Iran by law. Republic of IrelandeditThe IFCO rarely rates video games, and leaves decisions to PEGI and BBFC. Manhunt 2 was banned for gross, unrelenting, and gratuitous violence. But, it was later lifted and given a PEGI 1.