China ends freeze on videogame licensing, FT says


  • TECH
  • Monday, 31 Dec 2018

FILE PHOTO: A Tencent Games logo from an app is seen on a mobile phone in this illustration picture taken November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo

China has approved 80 new videogame titles in the first batch of licenses granted by the media regulator after the end of a nine-month freeze. 

The initial games were mostly local, mobile titles and didn’t include any from industry giants Tencent Holdings Ltd or Netease Inc. The notice of approvals was posted online by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television. 

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