Beijing is cracking down on one of the world's largest video game markets, mandating that kids under 18 years be limited to three hours of video game play each week. China's government says online games now require ID in order to log how long someone has been playing and proponents claim it's aimed to prevent video game addiction. Critics argue the regulations are aimed at giving China tighter control over the entertainment industry.
It's getting dangerously close to "game over" for some players in China: If you're under 18 and a fan of video games, you're now limited to just three hours of play a week. In an effort to curb video game addiction among children, China's National Press and Publication Administration is tightening …
Hong Kong — China's crackdown on online video gaming was in effect Thursday. Everyone in the country under the age of 18 — more than 268 million …
Zhu Jingtong was shocked. A manager at a games publisher in Shanghai, Zhu and her colleagues were blindsided. “We didn’t know anything beforehand,” …
On Monday, China issued sweeping regulations giving children under the age of 18 a three-hour window to play video games per week. Now China’s youth …
China's new regulation limiting children under 18 to just three hours of online games per week may be devastating for dedicated gamers, but gaming …
Li Zhanguo’s two children, ages 4 and 8, don’t have their own smartphones, but like millions of other Chinese children, they are no strangers to online gaming. “If my children get their hands on our mobile phones or an iPad, and if we don’t closely monitor their screen time, they can play online …
Beijing says the new rules were necessary to stop growing addiction to what it once described as ‘spiritual opium’. China’s new rules forbidding children under 18 from playing video games for more than three hours a week knocked shares in Tencent Holdings Ltd and other gaming companies, while young …
China has twice as many gamers as the U.S. has people—some 700 million of them. That ubiquity, especially among young people, has worried China’s …
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