Other China ends nine-month freeze on game approvals

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Read from gamesindustry biz:

China today issues its first licenses to publish new games in nine months, Reuters reports.

Today's approvals included 45 games from a number of companies, including Baidu, XD Inc, iDreamSky, and others.

The country's gaming regulators stopped issuing approvals to release new games last July, part of a series of crackdowns on the gaming industry that also included limiting gaming by minors to just three hours a week and implementing stricter rules around depictions of sexuality, morality, and religion.

Chinese-run media outlet Securities Daily reported earlier this year that 2021 saw about 14,000 game developers in China shut down. However, that can't be blamed solely on the approvals freeze; in 2020, that number was estimated to be 18,000.

 

[froggyboy604]

Hopefully, plenty of fun games get approve by China Game Approval workers.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Hopefully the local gamers are happy with it

 

[Ash]

Can't wait to see more horribly developed mobile games appear on the App Store and the Play Store. But it's good that they've started approving games. Don't think a government should be stopping things like this no matter how crap a game is.

 

[Burnsy]

Maybe Black Myth Wukong will finally come out holy shit.

 

[Artisan Vistra]

Whatever they were trying to prevent with their misinformation about video games before at least they are turning things around.