China’s new gaming rules to ban poker, blood and imperial schemes
On April 22, China finally resumed the approval process to license new games for monetization.
Licensing got back on track in December, but Reuters reported in February that the government stopped accepting new submissions due to a mounting pile of applications.
The bad news:
some genres of games will no longer be eligible, according to information communicated at the gaming conference.
Mahjong and poker games are taken off the approval list over concerns that such titles may channel illegal gambling.
According to video game researcher Niko Partners, 37 percent of the 8,561 games approved in 2017 were poker and mahjong titles.
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