Chinese children will be limited to a total video game playing time of about 15 hours during their month-long winter school holiday, under strict rules designed to prevent them becoming addicted ...

local children will be allowed to play PC games for a total of no more than 15-16 hours. Major Chinese video game companies — Tencent and NetEase — have already confirmed their commitment to complying ...

“It’s just as easy for a young person to spend four hours on TikTok in the evening rather than play games if their time is uncontrolled.” Short-video apps such as Douyin, the Chinese version ...

HONG KONG--China’s end to a sweeping crackdown on its video games market is expected ... Tencent said in November the total time under-18s spent on its games had plunged 92%.

Tencent, the world’s largest video gaming publisher by revenue, received a licence for the mobile discovery puzzle game Merge Mansion from Finnish game studio Metacore. NetEase, China’s second ...

China’s global ambitions are no longer confined to infrastructure megaprojects or its booming trade networks. The country has found an unlikely but effective tool for soft power: video games.

A panel of censors set up to vet mobile video games in China has signalled it will be ... playing video games at the cost of spending time on outdoor pastimes. It was announced in August that ...