From Kotaku

Shanda Entertainment – one of Mainland China’s heavy hitters in the gaming industry – announced that their subsidiary, Aurora Technology, has frozen accounts of male players who have elected to play as female characters in the King of the World MMORPG. Apparently there are no bans on women playing male characters, but women (and men-wanting-to-play-as-women) will be required to prove their gender via webcam.

Incidentally, Kotaku blogger Maggie Green is doing a bang-up job in attempting to bring culture to the site’s community of teenage fanboy readers. I don’t envy her, though.