12. Counter Strike

A very popular first person shooter series that has been in production since 1999. The original game in the series has been banned in Brazil since January 2008. After fans published a mod that depicted a Brazilian ghetto the government began restricting the retail sale of the game claiming the game, “brings imminent stimulus to the subversion of the social order, attempting against the democratic and rightful state and against the public safety.”

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Brazil is one of the largest consumers of videogames in the country – despite the high tax burden on games in the country. Yet, this odd banning is another case of how countries around the world see the industry and how it could possibly impact consumers. The timing of the ban was also strange in this case coming nearly a decade after the original release of Counter Strike.