China’s top media regulator has stopped receiving new applications for commercial video game licences, as it faces a backlog of thousands of titles from a nine-month suspension that slowed growth in the world’s largest games market last year.
The top media regulator in Beijing is no longer receiving licensing submissions, two industry sources and a state-run media outlet said, in a move that will further delay the launch of new games.
A suspension of new commercial licensing last year — part of a bureaucratic reshuffle that saw China’s top media regulator folded into the ruling Communist party’s propaganda department — slowed revenue growth for companies including tech giant Tencent.
您已閱讀28%（690字），剩餘72%（1744字）包含更多重要資訊，訂閱以繼續探索完整內容，並享受更多專屬服務。