Thailand Begins Crackdown on 'Dangerous Games,' Bans Five Titles

As part of its ongoing attempts to protect youth from video games, the Thailand government has officially banned five video games from sale within the country and established a set of guidelines to help prevent access to "dangerous games."

The government claims that gaming is "a problem which is obsessive and has an (adverse) effect on the behavior of children and teens," going by a translation of an official press release by CNET Asia writer Jesada Chandraprasert.

The five banned games are as follows:

• Hitman
• 300
• Killer 7
• Hitman: Blood Money
• 50 Cent Bulletproof

The above represents almost half of a Thailand-issued list of dangerous and banned video games. As GamePolitics notes, Thailand's list curiously mirrors a...