News that gamers will be talking about for weeks to come.

The government of the People's "Republic" of China has received some pretty negative press lately.  Not too long ago, they were exporting dog food burdened with a really bad side effect known as "death."  As if that's not bad enough, instances of bribery and corruption have been on the rise in all levels of government.  Toss in the standard stories of human rights violations, add a pinch of the usual saber-rattling over Taiwan, and you're left with one hell of a public relations nightmare.  Can't a totalitarian regime get a break?

Given these political headaches, the world's largest communist state has turned to the one thing guaranteed to raise spirits:  video games.

That's right, kids!  The creators of the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square Massacre have created a PC game called Incorruptible Fighter.  According to the BBC, this game "allows players to get ahead by killing and torturing corrupt officials, while assisting the upstanding ones."  Do your job well and you are rewarded with a virtual Maoist utopia.

Hold on a second…  a government that is not only okay with violent video games, but actually produces them?  Maybe I should rethink all the unkind things I've said about those godless commies.  There's something to be said for a system that would silence Jack Thompson in the name of "national unity."

This could prove to be a very positive development for Take-Two Interactive, if used properly.  All they have to do is change every Manhunt 2 villain into a bourgeois capitalist pig, sanction it with the PRC government, and watch it sell like hotcakes.  That would give every gamer in the free world the ability to say, "Why does China get Manhunt 2 and we don't?  They don't even have real elections."  Seriously, how bad would the ESRB look if they censored something that was acceptable in Red China?  I rest my case.

(Memo to Take-Two executives:  My consulting fee is usually 20%, but I'll bring it down to 10% as a first time customer bonus.)

Join us next week for our exclusive preview of China's upcoming venture, Trauma Center: One-Child Policy Enforcement.