China has resumed issuing licenses to game publishers after it spent the last nine months figuring out how to filter out extreme violence and how to limit games being too addictive for children.
China has resumed approving games for release this weekend, this follows a halt to the process which was put in place in March earlier this year over fears that video games were too violent and that they were causing youngsters to develop addictions to the games. The resumption of the approval process saw 80 games approved on Saturday.
According to Reuters, one notable publisher did not appear on the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television’s approval list – that was Tencent, the firm responsible for popular games including Arena of Valor and mobile editions of PUBG.
