China’s newly formed committee begins evaluating games

China is one step closer to approving commercial licenses for new games. The country’s state media revealed the formation of the Online Games Ethics Committee (OGEC) on Friday. This new oversight group has begun evaluating the appropriateness of game content looking to enter the market. The OGEC started with a group of 20 unreleased products. China has not approved a new game for sale in China since March.

But while this is a move in the direction of permitting new games to make money in China, the committee has not opened the floodgates. It did not approve a single one of the 20 games it looked at for sale. Instead, the OGEC rejected nine games, according to China Central Television (via South China Morning Post). The group is asking the developers of the remaining 11 games to make content changes to their products.