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Issues Foreign Video Game Developers Face in Introducing Online Games to the Chinese Market
With the rapid growth of China’s online video gaming market, China has become a particularly appealing target market for both Chinese and foreign online game developers, particularly those developing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG). In 2009, 35 imported online games obtained approval for release in China, and imported games have accounted for 38.8% of China’s CNY 25.8 billion online gaming industry.
China Media & IT
KW
King & Wood Mallesons
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New Online Game Regulations Aim to Tidy Up China's Online Game Sector
China’s two online game regulators - the Ministry of Culture and the General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP) - have been struggling for control of the online game sector. The two regulators separately announced that they were drafting new rules governing the sector, but the Ministry of Culture seems to have beaten GAPP to the punch by releasing the Provisional Regulations for the Administration of Online Games on 3 June 2010 ("Online Game Regulations").
China Media & IT
KW
King & Wood Mallesons
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