Home MMORPG china’s games industry (compact bullet list)
• China’s National Radio and Television Administration bans access to livestreams of unapproved games
• Tencent to cut off Chinese gamers accessing unapproved foreign titles through an internet speed booster
• MMO Business Roundup: China’s freeze, ABK’s new diversity officer, and Sony and Epic’s metaverse
• China’s continued freeze on new gaming approvals sees 14,000 gaming firms in the country shut down
• Steam’s global version appears to have been blocked in China
• Fortnite is closing down in China on November 15
• MMO Business Roundup: China’s crackdown, the COVID bubble, MY.GAMES hires, and the Shatterline leak
• China adds new rules against games with ‘effeminate males’ and ‘blurred moral boundaries’
• Regulators in China and the UK turn their eyes toward streaming, gaming currency
• Tencent, Netease hit with stock losses amid China’s gaming industry clampdown
• China’s new kid gaming time regulations are already causing industry trainwrecks
• China now limits minors’ gaming time to three hours a week, indicates anti-monopoly policies are forthcoming
• Krafton’s IPO launch didn’t go to plan thanks to China and Tencent
• Tencent reacts to Chinese state media calling online games ‘spiritual opium’ by adding new restrictions
• China’s video game regulators introduce a three-tier age rating system for games
• MMO Business Roundup: Tencent facial recognition, Chinese gaming regulation, anti-cheat, and hackers
• China is cracking down on online games and streaming even more with ‘Healthy China 2030’
• China is really adding that youth gaming curfew and block on sex and gore in games
• Lawful Neutral: What’s China really worth to the Western gaming industry?
• Mark Kern didn’t just quit WoW Classic: He accused his old Firefall studio of Chinese corruption
• Newly proposed Chinese gaming regulations target romantic plotlines and sexual content
• Tencent gives up on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds being approved in China
• China reveals new regulatory system for online video games after more than a year of confusion
• MMO Business Roundup: Prince Harry vs Fortnite, China’s big thaw, Gamigo’s new acquisition, and industry transparency
• China puts a freeze on new game approval (again)
• China is approving games again, but none of them is from Tencent or Netease
• China’s Online Games Ethics Committee lifts year-long ‘freeze’ on game licenses but bars multiple games
• Tencent is pulling back its marketing budget in response to China’s ongoing game freeze
• Tencent is expanding draconian ‘healthy gaming’ child blocks across all of its titles
• Tencent is working on locking kids out of Chinese games using facial recognition tech
• Here’s what’s going on with China’s video game approval process in simple terms
• Tencent’s market value dropped by $20B following new Chinese gaming regulation plans
• The World Health Organization advances its ‘gaming disorder’ classification in spite of heavy criticism
• Nexon is heavily affected by China’s new game import laws
• Pokemon Go: Increasing physical activity in the US, blockaded in China
• China bans streaming games not approved by the Ministry of Culture
