China’s Video Game Studios Face Long March

The future of Chinese video game companies is hanging in the balance, as Beijing’s freeze on licences for new titles enters its seventh month, Caixin Global reported.

The National Press and Publication Administration, which oversees licensing video games in China, has not published a list of approved new titles since late last July, the report said, adding that this was the longest hiatus since Beijing carried out an eight-month hold on giving out licences back in 2018.

Read the full report: Caixin Global.

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.