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.
$騰訊控股(ADR) (TCEHY.US)$, $網易 (NTES.US)$，以及 美保代 中國授予 88 個網絡遊戲的發行許可證，因此贏得了勝利。
最大的遊戲公司騰訊贏得至少一個游戲許可證的手機遊戲名為」袁门之兴，」路透社報道。
中國第二大博彩公司網易袋裝一款射擊遊戲牌照取名」昭放賢峰。」
美荷悠，背後著名的開發商 源心衝擊，贏得一個名為的遊戲授權 本海：星際鐵路。
北京對許可證批准程序發起了九個月的凍結，這是對該行業進行全面鎮壓的一部分。
去年 12 月，由於對該行業的鎮壓結束，中國在將近 18 個月後授予 44 個國外遊戲的發行許可證，以供國內發行。
2022 年 11 月，騰訊為《合金彈頭：覺醒》的動作遊戲取得了一年半的首個商業遊戲許可證。
11 月，網易贏得了一款名為「西遊記：歸來」的角色扮演遊戲牌照，這是解除凍結以來的第二個許可證。
與大多數其他國家不同，電子遊戲在中國發布之前需要監管機構的批准，而中國也是最大的博彩市場。