China gaming ban: no new licenses in May points to ‘new normal’ in regulatory hostility

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China gaming ban: no new licenses in May points to ‘new normal’ in regulatory hostility
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Silence has followed the agency’s approval for 45 new video game titles on April 11, leaving the industry in the dark. China has the world’s biggest mobile-gaming market with an estimated US$49bil revenue, one investor estimates.

has refrained from issuing any new licenses in May after it ended an eight-month freeze in April, signalling Beijing’s regulatory hostility will persist for now, industry insiders say.

Since then, however, the agency stopped issuing new licenses to developers without any explanation, a departure from the previous episode of industry calamity. The agency approved hundreds of titles after December 2018, when it ended a nine-month ban after completing a regulatory regime reshuffle.

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