Action role-playing game Lost Soul Aside received a licence for release on personal computers as well as for gaming consoles PlayStation 4 and 5, according to the NPPA list.
Tencent Holdings, which runs the world’s biggest video gaming business by revenue, received the regulator’s go-ahead for a mobile game on carbon neutrality. Tan Tan Dao, which translates to “Carbon Island”, was first announced by Tencent in 2022 as part of its efforts to promote social responsibility through video games.
Although the latest NPPA list is smaller in number compared to those in the past three months, the regulator has continued to step up the pace of approvals as Chinese authorities try to restore confidence in the industry.
In January, the regulator retracted a draft proposal it published in December that aimed to put a cap on user spending in games and ban “excessive” rewards. That proposal caused at least US$80 billion of Chinese video gaming stocks’ market value to be wiped out in Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York.
A key Chinese government official later stepped down, as the NPPA moved to withdraw that proposal, according to a South China Morning Post report, which cited people familiar with the matter.
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The resurrection of China’s video gaming industry
The resurrection of China’s video gaming industry
Separately, NetEase also received the NPPA’s green light to release a PC version of its hugely popular mobile game Diablo Immortal, according to another document released on Friday by the regulator.
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