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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 23 2017, @07:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the can-you-drive-the-tank? dept.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is one of 2017's most popular video games, and it's getting a makeover for the Chinese market:

Chinese gaming giant Tencent Holdings Ltd is bringing "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", the world's hottest video game, to China, but with a twist. The gory, battle royale-style game will get a socialist makeover to meet stringent Chinese rules. The move comes after China's content regulator slammed the South Korean-made game, PUBG for short, last month for being too violent and said it would likely be blocked because it "severely deviates from socialist core values".

The PUBG game where players fight for survival on a deserted island is currently the world's top-selling videogame, having shipped more than 20 million copies since its launch in March. It has been developed by South Korean firm Blue Hole.

Tencent, which recently outstripped Facebook Inc in market value, said it had won the exclusive rights to the game in China, and that it would modify the game in order to meet the requirements of China's regulators and censors. "(Tencent) will make adjustment to content ... and make sure they accord with socialist core values, Chinese traditional culture and moral rules," it said in a statement on Wednesday.

Also at Engadget.


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  • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @11:32AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @11:32AM (#600616)

    Will there be breaks where everyone starts quoting from Chairman Mao or are their going to be a cultural revolution mid game where all the intellectuals are forced out into the country side or will there be some kind of grindy death marches?

    So how about American values these days? Like going to a church and shooting everyone in the head? Or to a kindergarden?

    Want to compare obscene realities, then this is perfect examples. Except cultural revolution died soon after McCarthyism in America ... but the gun violence in America is continuing legacy that is simply ignored because those individual lives don't seem to matter, only collective rights of gun idiots.

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  • (Score: 3, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 23 2017, @11:59AM (5 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 23 2017, @11:59AM (#600618) Journal

    Tell ya what, Comrade Anonymous - when we reach 20 million lying in mass graves, we'll reconsider our ways. Until then, just keep your communist shit to yourself.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:53PM (#600653)

      when we reach 20 million lying in mass graves, we'll reconsider our ways.

      Me thinks it has been a while since you'd need to reconsider. The civil war alone resulted in casualties of 3% of your population, with 620,000 deaths in 4 years [wikipedia.org]. Since then, you were mostly at war one way or another. [wikipedia.org]

      Some excerpts
      - Korean war [wikipedia.org] - an estimated 1,550,000 of North Korea civilians were killed
      - Vietnam war [wikipedia.org] - 10% of the territory drowned in Dioxin (Agent Orange) killing 400,000 civilians in the process and 500,000 children born with birth defects. "In 2012 alone, unexploded bombs and other ordnance claimed 500 casualties in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, according to activists and government databases."

      If you add to those the excess mortality, caused by destruction of infrastructure, loss of access to water, food, heath care or due to diseases caused by war...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:53PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:53PM (#600654)

      Do you count only locally or do we dirty forrinurs abroad also factor in?

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:47PM (1 child)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:47PM (#600670) Journal

        To arrive at twenty million, for either the Soviet or Red China, we are only counting the citizens/subjects/vassals/chattel of their own countries. So, no, dirty forrinurs aren't counted in the US' mass graves score. Matter of fact, native Americans don't count either, because few if any of those slaughtered were US Citizens. We have a long way to go to match the Commies. Even if we count all those people who have died in our prison-for-profit industry, we haven't made a decent start.

        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:27PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:27PM (#600688)

          Yeah, the civilians of other cuntries are worthless shite, only the nobles patriots cunt.
          If you get jmorris, half yo sins are redeemed

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by crafoo on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:30PM

      by crafoo (6639) on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:30PM (#600690)

      How does that joke go? "Communism, always one murder away from utopia." Yeah, think that's it.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @08:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @08:34PM (#600803)

    What does this have to do with the article?