Chinese regulators have temporarily suspended the registration of new online games in the country.
New rules about video games appeared afterregulatory meetings led by the propaganda department of the Chinese Communist Party and the National Press Office (NPPA). Together with representatives of Tencent and NetEase, they discussed the application of the new restrictions, especially for minors.
However, even before the meeting, the licensing process for new games had slowed down by more than a month.
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Anonymous source of the publication who knows aboutmeeting details, noted that the issuance of permits for new games will be suspended "for a while" as the priority is to "reduce the number of new games" and "reduce gambling addiction" in the country, which is the world's largest video game market.
NPPA, responsible for licensing video games inthe country did not publish the list of approved games for August, disrupting the process - they usually do this either in the middle or at the end of the month since 2019. Typically 80 to 100 games are approved monthly. The regulator has not yet responded to a request for comment for the South China Morning Post.
In 2018, amid changes to China's legal framework, authorities imposed a nine-month moratorium on new video game approvals, negatively affecting many small developers.
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