In late November, Australia's federal parliament passed landmark ... work by looking at China's large-scale use of age verification technologies to restrict young people's video game consumption.

The same year, China enacted a halt on approvals for new video games, which lasted nine months ... The administration will work with law enforcement to construct a unified identification system ...

China on Monday approved gaming licenses for 45 video games. The country had stopped issuing licenses in July 2021. Over 14,000 small developers were reportedly forced to shut down due to the ban.

China has ended a freeze on new video game releases that began in March 2018, with the recently formed Online Games Ethics Committee announcing that 80 new games were approved in late December.