Anti-porn drive to target online games

China extended its crackdown on pornography to online games after shutting down 1,250 websites for having explicit pornographic content.

The Ministry of Culture said in a notice on its website yesterday that it had blacklisted a number of online games, including the Red Light Center, for having pornographic content.

The multi-user game, developed by Vancouver-based Utherverse Inc, features a virtual sex function for fee-paying users through computerized personae. The game's website was inaccessible last night. The ministry notice ordered game developers to clean up their act.