China regulator approves 86 new video game licences in May in another sign sector is back on track
- Tencent, operator of the world’s largest video gaming business by revenue, received a licence for Ace Force 2
- Other approvals include Dislyte, an urban mythological role-playing game developed by Lilith Games
The National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA), the agency responsible for licensing video games in China, published its latest list of approvals on Monday, with an amount in line with previous months this year.
Tencent, operator of the world’s largest video gaming business by revenue, received a licence for Ace Force 2, a first-person shooting mobile game. NetEase, China’s second-largest video gaming company, was granted a licence for a mobile and personal computer game named Seven-Day World.
The new list reaffirms the picture that China’s video game licence approvals process is back to normal after a year-long crackdown that started in late 2021, when authorities imposed an eight-month freeze on game approvals and imposed a three-hours-a-week online game time limit for minors.