China Has Banned More than 60 Games From Live Streaming

China has banned more than 60 games from being live-streamed on the popular broadcast platform Bilibili.

Bilibili says that this is to adhere to the Ministry of Culture’s requirements of “not offering games with banned content such as GTA5, Yazkuza, Bloodless, H1Z1, Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th, etc”.

This means that the following games will be banned from live streaming in China:

• H1Z1
• World War Z
• Left 4 Dead
• Grand Theft Auto Series (GTA)
• Paint the Town Red
• Dead by Daylight
• The Elder Scrolls
• Battlefield 3 and 4
• Yakuza Series
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
• The Evil Within
• Mortal Kombat
• Friday the 13th: The Game
• Sleeping Dogs
• Kio’s Adventure
• Outlast
• Warhammer: Vermintide 2
• Dead Space
• Kantai Collection
• Hearts of Iron
• Surgeon Simulator
• Agony
• Doki Doki Literature Club!
• Yandere Simulator
• Dark Souls
• The Last of Us
• Senran Kagura
• OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead
• Killing Floor
• Devotion Detention
• Fear the Night
• Dead or Alive
• Hitman 6
• 7 Days to Die
• Judgment
• Tomb Raider
• Slendy Tubbies
• Twilight Struggle
• Slappy Ass
• My Last Friday
• Fire Extinguisher – The Flame of the Grill
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Story Mode)
• World of Tanks
• Age of History
• Plague Inc.
• Red Virus
• Reversed Front
• The Witcher 3
• Fleet Combat 2
• The Ruler of Nations Series
• Life Is Strange: True Colors
• Resident Evil 1, Resident Evil 5, Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil 7, Resident Evil 8
• Back 4 Blood
• Visage
• All dating sims with explicit content

Bilibili also said they will follow the requirements of the Ministry of Culture and other regulatory authorities to check live broadcasts of games and prohibit streams with graphic violence or pornographic content.

This is part of a movement within China to strengthen and standardize live broadcasts on the platform and create a good online cultural environment. These policies were actually penned as early as 2017 and have come alongside a number of other restrictions on gaming in China such as minors only being allowed to game for three hours a week.

This list will continue to be updated every year. If you’re planning to stream on Billibilli, best be careful and make sure the game you want to play is allowed on the platform.

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