It seems the murder of a taxi cab driver in Thailand has taken an even stranger turn, besides the whole "It's linked to Grand Theft Auto" business. It seems the Thai government has released a list of games that have been deemed as violent games to avoid.

The only thing about it? It seems to have been taken from somewhere else.

Here's the list, as translated by CNET's Jesada Chandraprasert:

1. GTA
2. Man Hunt
3. Scarface
4. 50 Cent - Bullet Proof
5. 300
6. The Godfather
7. Killer 7
8. Resident Evil 4
9. God of War
10. Hitman

GamePolitics compared this to an outdated list of violent games to avoid made by Detroit Prosecutor Kym Worthy, which you can see below:

1. Grand Theft Auto
2. Manhunt
3. Scarface
4. 50 Cent Bulletproof
5. 300
6. The Godfather
7. Killer-7
8. Resident Evil 4
9. God of War
10. Hitman Blood Money

If you look at the two lists closely, they're basically the exact same list, only with Hitman: Blood Money turned into Hitman and Grand Theft Auto turned into GTA. Even if the translation from Chandraprasert is imprecise, the fact remains that the two lists are near-identical.

GamePolitics posits the possibility that "Thai bureaucrats are simply grabbing material from the Web in order to support a video game crackdown by the government." Of course, it could just be a lazy bureaucrat filching stuff to look good. Either way, the effect is the same: dark times for video games in Thailand.

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