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According to Reddit who got the transnational   from Chinese gaming forum "NGA" by the user name  "u/ZeroWolfe547, China Online Gaming Ethics Review Committee looked over 20 popular online games for potential "ethic risk," reportedly banning 9 of them, including PUBG, Fortnite, and Paladins. The Chinese gaming community may another crackdown on it's hand.

While others games that are ordered to be removed from market or prohibited from sale are H1Z1, Alliances of Valiant Arms, and Ring of Elysium , and also some Publisher for almost 11 games were also asked to take "corrective action ", some of them are , League of Legends, Overwatch, Diablo and Warcraft. 

According to translation (assuming it's  a correct translation )  the reason they got banned because the games has " inharmonious chatroom ",  "rewards given by rank ", "distorted concepts of history and culture," "Overly revealing female characters", "Blood and gore", and vulgar content," The citation statement also applied to Fortnite which is known for a kid friendly games and no blood and gore content. 

Also the reddit user explain that it's still unknown who take this responsibilities , whether it's being enforced by the regulators, or regulators would go about doing that.  The post relays claims that PUBG and Fortnite are still playable in the country . The post was also update to share that blizzard initially denied the reports through Chinese social media platform Weibo, but the post later deleted. 

Another official word has come from Paladins publisher Hi- Rez Studios 

 “Tencent manages Paladins in China, including full operation of the game and all interface with the government in regards to the game. At this time Hi-Rez can neither confirm nor deny reports regarding a government ban, and can offer no insights on corrective action.”

As we know that Epic already part of China main land corporation "Tencent " , and Epic are the one who own Fortnite. So the title is very accurate , but still the stories is still in vague , i bet we will hear an update soon.