Tencent, NetEase Score More Wins As China Awards More Gaming Licenses
Tencent, NetEase Score More Wins As China Awards More Gaming Licenses
$Tencent (TCEHY.US)$, $NetEase (NTES.US)$, and miHoYo scored a win as China granted publishing licenses to 88 online games.
The largest gaming company Tencent won at least one game license for a mobile game named "Yuanmengzhixing," Reuters reports.
China's second-largest gaming company NetEase bagged a license for a shooting game named "Chaofanxianfeng."
miHoYo, the famed developer behind Genshin Impact, won one license for a game named Honkai: Star Rail.
Beijing initiated a nine-month freeze on the license approval process as a part of a sweeping crackdown on the sector.
In December last year, China granted publishing licenses to 44 foreign games for domestic release after nearly 18 months as an end of the crackdown on the sector.
In November 2022, Tencent bagged its first commercial game license in a year and a half for an action game titled "Metal Slug: Awakening."
NetEase won a license in November for a role-playing game titled "Journey to the West: Return," its second license since the freeze was lifted.
Unlike in most other countries, video games need approvals from regulators before a release in China, which is also the largest gaming market.
$腾讯控股(ADR) (TCEHY.US)$， $网易 (NTES.US)$，以及 miHoYo 中国向88款在线游戏发放了出版许可，赢得了胜利。
最大的游戏公司腾讯为一款名为 “” 的手机游戏赢得了至少一份游戏许可袁梦之兴，” 路透社报道。
中国第二大游戏公司网易获得了一款名为” 的射击游戏的许可赵先锋。”
miHoYo，背后的著名开发者 原神冲击，为一款名为的游戏赢得了一张许可证 Honkai：星际铁路。
作为对该行业的全面镇压的一部分，北京启动了为期九个月的许可证批准程序冻结。
去年12月，作为对该行业的镇压结束了将近18个月之后，中国向44款外国游戏发放了在国内发行的发行许可。
2022年11月，腾讯获得了一款名为《合金弹头：觉醒》的动作游戏一年半以来的第一张商业游戏许可。
网易在11月获得了一款名为《西游记：归来》的角色扮演游戏的许可，这是自解除冻结以来的第二份许可。
与大多数其他国家不同，电子游戏需要获得监管机构的批准才能在中国发布，而中国也是最大的游戏市场。