FILE PHOTO: A woman uses her mobile phone in front of a China Mobile office in downtown Shanghai October 22, 2012. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A woman uses her mobile phone in front of a China Mobile office in downtown Shanghai October 22, 2012. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
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Chinese regulators start approving mobile games for Tencent, NetEase, and Perfect World

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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After a long delay, big Chinese game publishers Tencent, NetEase, and Perfect World are getting their mobile games approved for the Chinese market again.

China’s new gaming regulator, the State Administration of Press and Publication (SAPP), last week released a list of digital games that have been granted a license for publication. Tencent, NetEase, and Perfect World have titles on this list, which is the third batch of licenses since December 19, 2018.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.