Yesterday, China released new video game licenses for 73 games, with four on PC, one on PS4 and the rest on mobile platforms.
Noticeably, NetEase finally received a video game license after over a year of waiting, marking the return of the giants in the gaming industry after the ”license winter”. NetEase’s stock in the US, NTES, rallies 5.7% in the premarket session at the same time.
NetEase’s licensed game is called All-Star Streetball Party (with the official Chinese name 全明星街球派对). Detailed information about this game has not been released yet.
NetEase and Tencent got their first video game licenses
Along with NetEase, Tencent also acquired a license. The licensed mobile game is Health Defensive Battle (with the official Chinese name 健康保卫战) and is operated by Nanjing Wangdian, a firm subordinate to the Tencent corporate group.
Nanjing Wangdian is a subordinate corporation of Tencent
The game shares the same name as a Tencent-developed game announced at the Tencent Games Annual Conference in 2021. The latter is a casual tower defense game aiming to spread health information through entertainment. This game has opened pre-registrations for iOS and Android on TapTap for now.
Among the licenses’ updates, Warm Snow and A Perfect Day are allowed to release mobile versions
Meanwhile, The National Press and Publication Administration also announced a list of previously licensed games, approving their license updates. Chinese popular indie games A Perfect Day and Warm Snow have also been approved to release their mobile versions.
Source: NPPA