Muslim professor blocked from game because his name was on US blacklist

Muhammad Khan's name appeared on a US government list of people subject to economic sanctions, which saw him barred from signing up for Paragon

Epic Games has apologised after mistakenly barring an American professor from playing its online game Paragon because someone who has the same name as him was on a US government blacklist.

Muhammad Zakir Khan, an assistant professor at Florida's Broward College, had tried to sign up for the beta of first-person shooter Paragon, a multiplayer game inspired by esports hits such as Dota2. But instead of being given an account for the game, Khan was hit with an unusual error message.