China View today released a statement in which 50 games have been banned. A few of the games that have been banned are well known titles such as Fifa 2005, Battlefield Vietnam and Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell.

This comes as a surprise to most people, as games such as Fifa 2005 contain no violence at all and have no real reason to be banned. Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell is also a surprise, but due to some of the content seen in the SinglePlayer portion of the game, I guess it can be justified.

The CPL World Tour also has a planned stop in China, which will come as bad news to them.. as they will now most likely have to replace China with another stop.

Tonya from the CPL has released a few words said by the CPL founder Angel Munoz which you can read below:

We have been working with the Chinese government and they are willing to make exceptions. However, if in the end the Chinese government does not cooperate, we can always move that event to somewhere else in Asia.

Hopefully we will get another update on this shortly, stay tuned.

(source: sk-gaming)

Gotfrag released a new World Rankings feature for Painkiller. Vo0 is, not very suprising, ranked number one.

link: http://www.gotfrag.com/pk/news/2902/

The CPL finally launched their World Tour website. It contains information about the stops, sponsors and the final.

Head over there now: www.cplworldtour.com

CPL|Tonya posted on the cpl forums:

MTV has confirmed that they are sending a television crew to Istanbul to film the first stop of the World Tour. Also MTV Europe is planning coverage of the Barcelona Stop. The CPL is in discussions with MTV to cover the entire tour, including the $500,000 grand finals.

A third Painkiller.euro duel tournament is being planned, with signups growing near. The tournament is open to everyone, and will have an initial 64 player cap unless there is high demand for more places, in which case it will be upped.

I have posted an article with rules and information, which you can read here and if you have anymore questions.. don’t hesitate to contact me in IRC: #Painkiller.euro.