All i need to here now is how thailands crime rate is going down. Then they will say SEE VIDEO GAMES KILL..
and we will all suffer for that.

so when in thailand go kill someone just to get the rate up, ohh after you have sex with a minor of course.

skwca

I had no idea about the sex tourism in Thailand. I'm tempted to google and find out what the heck is going on. But at the same time.... I really don't want to.

Warbuff6644

@balls187 upside yo head: If they're willing to come out of retirement.

And that's the only joke I'll ever steal... at the moment.

Erwin

@Nirolak:

they make money off child sex tourism.

It's like las vegas shutting down their casinos... why would they do it?

Videogames are a foreign product competing with domestic forms of entertainment (like child sex tourism) which is why it's being banned.

Because they aren't profiting off it.

sixonedoesitall

@balls187 upside yo head: As terrible as it is, I lol'd.

Hahaue

Speaking of hitman when am i getting my next fix. This is ridiculous i effing love that game and i havent seen a damn thing on it.

snakepliskin

@EmeraldDragon: Seconded.

trogam

Thailand: We ban video games, but feel free to come here and fuck little kids.

balls187 upside yo head

I vote to make this the new Ban Hammer picture.

EmeraldDragon

Yes, because video games are the biggest thing effecting Thailand's youth.

If I lived in Thailand, hell even as a foreigner, I'd much prefer that they worked on getting rid of child sex tourism than worrying about what video games the kids are playing.

There are priorities in this world, and it's about time their government started looking at them.

Nirolak

Doesn't Tailand have a "State of Emergancy" (No pun... well, actually pun intended) right now?

insanejedi

"...300: The Video Game..."

THIS IS MADNESS!!!

TheHeeyyy

Hahahah 50 Cent: Bulletproof. HAHAHAH/

IceCold

The government had to take a stance! With all that video-game-playing, young boys had no time for sex with foreign travelers. They DEPEND on those tourism dollars!

mwoody

@Lazlo: I sniff that to be a good starting point for a nice political discussion! (Not meaning that in a blaming way.)

Or not. We could stick to games, here, on Kotaku, the gaming blog.

I think it would be fun though...

vid3oman64

My god there is a whole lot of stupid in that article. Apparently it mirrors the Thai legislative body

X-Cannon

You can't regulate morality. Some people are evil fucks no matter what you take away from them.

Lazlo

why the fuck do they always list Killer 7, hardly anyone even played the damn thing!

LEAVE SUDA 51 ALONE! [/chris crokcer]

pandafresh

Another chapter in the "governments having nothing important to do" annals of history.

vid3oman64

Because being a fascist and banning everything that you think is bad is much easier than trying to support better education and parenting.

*eyes rolling so hard it hurts*

DaveKap

5555!

Barbara

Well, the others, I don't really get, but 300, I can understand. You don't want kids doing 50,000 crunches, and then ramming a spear through someone with a skin condition or deformity.

For one thing, it presents a predjudicial viewpoint toward the handicapped. For another, it teaches kids that they should hang around with other guys with their shirts off. And I think that's sexy.

I mean wrong. Morally wrong.

and so so sexy.

deathbunny

@laser beams: Come on, they had 3 years.

Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.

killer 7, BANNED???????

WTF, guys? that sucks for the hardcore gamers in Thailand who may not have gotten the chance to play it already :(

laser beams

Funny,can someone explain me what hitman has to do with killing sprees?If anything that game embody´s the total opposite,discouraging you from taking any unnecessary "actions".
I can understand the ban of 50 cent bulletproof though.
No rapper should be allowed to get even near my console without being shot.

Chibirazi

while their government is crumbling into the shits. Great focus of priorities.

kitsuneconundrum

Wow. I can't help but wonder if the reason Killer7 shows up on so many EVIL lists when these things get complied is just because of what it's called? Word "Kill" in title + M rating or equivalent = Child-Corrupting Murder Simulator.

I guess it makes sense if you've never played videogames.

The rest of them just seem like the quickest handful of violent-sounding games the government could dig up with a 5 minute google search and slap on a list to show how proactive they are. Nice.

Malloc

Finally, the perfect adrenaline rush! Smuggling GTA games into Thailand!

Shockadin

I am personaly tired of random killing games anyway. I am againest censorship, but these games IMO are getting lame.

Omniel

And, thus, Thailand's era of eternal peace began...

sandwiches

Suda 51 obviously has not dealt with many Southeast Asian government officials. Even the smallest bribe would have kept any one of these games off the list. Tsk, tsk.

b.bear

The 300 game? Seriously? They just banned that because of how violent and popular the movie was.

Kenny

This is so stupid. I live in Thailand and can't even fathom the levels of contradiction at play here.

1. no one actually buys new games here...well almost no one. They buy illegal copies. Those are still selling far and wide and will continue to sell to any kid that has 120 baht for a 360 game.

2. they have known brothels here. The second they shut those down i'll take stupid crap like this seriously.

3. they have adults bashing other adults heads into the pavement here over political struggles currently. Think there's slightly more pressing stuff going on here right now.

In the end this is just Thailand doing what Thailand does...posturing for the rest of the world to show off how "developed" they are. They miss the heart of why these things go on and just do them because other cities are doing them (like the recent smoking ban, which they let cops take bribes for so the clubs can keep allowing smoking).

pcypert

Damn... it's always Killer 7.

Do Kesubei

My country also banned 50 Cent: Bulletproof but only because our government has great taste in videogames...

Ira Lazerburg

i find the test of a countrie's taste is wether it banns 50 cent bulletproof. thailand passes.

rianfrost

@rianfrost: But they also banned Killer7. Pass revoked.

Protector one

I see a pattern to this list, it's closely connected to the "10 most dangerous games" that the Thai government put out a while ago. [kotaku.com]
That list in turn was a direct copy of a list put out by a Detroit Prosecutor a few months before: [www.gamepolitics.com]

PS. Kotaku, please pay more attention to your Tags, I checked them on this articleexpecting to find a "Thailand" tag so I could find the other articles on this issue. Instead, I found an "Only in Thailand" tag which naturally only had this article in it.

Sofox

Not surprising, since Thailand is currently in a political shit-storm crisis right now if the media over here is to be believed. If pcypert is indeed from Thailand than it sounds like that's what's going on.

And like all government bodies, whenever you fuck up, you find a scapegoat to deflect blame/public attention. Kind of like that episode of Family Guy where Mayor West spends a ton of money on a gold Digg'um statue and then bans gay marriage to divert attention from his fuck up.

Yeah it's kind of like that just, you know, on a larger scale...and involving serious issues...hey, it sounded good in my head before I typed it. :)

deadjesterx

@vid3oman64:
Not really a political statement, actually. And also I wasn't the one diverting off the video game path. My comment fell directly in line with the topic, so I don't think there was any reason why my comment should be picked out more than, say, DaveKap.

Also, my statement is one hundred percent accurate. They could make a DS game called My Morality Coach and it still wouldn't be able to teach people how to be civil citizens, not in America anyways...

Lazlo

Their government really needs to get with the program. Violent videogames doesn't cause violent people, and I thought our media was bad on the subject, but banning? And banning on a 300 game.

What the hell are they thinking, seriously?

zerokoolpsx

Isn't Thailand going through a mass demonstration / potential coup right now?

In any case another one of my awful game related jokes. If customers are learning to murder cabbies from violent video games, shouldn't the cabbies be learning to protect themselves by learning to drive via Crazy Taxi (I know if a cabbie drove that way I'd be too scared shitless to try and attempt to mess with cabbies)?

angry_gamer

oh god....that's my country....
this was old news in Thailand but still piss everyone off

by the way....we are NOT fascist....But president and
"Thailand's Ministry of Culture".....both retarded.

300: The Video Game....... /facepalm

crover