China forbids kids and teens under 18 from playing video games for more than 3 hours a week.
The new rules coincide with a broader clampdown by Beijing against China’s tech giants, such as Alibaba and Tencent.Reuters fileSHANGHAI — China has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours a week, a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to what it once described as “spiritual opium”.
They limit under-18s to playing for one hour a day — 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. — on only Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, according to the Xinhua state news agency. They can also play for an hour, at the same time, on public holidays. Gaming companies will be barred from providing services to minors in any form outside the stipulated hours and must ensure they have put real-name verification systems in place, said the regulator, which oversees the country’s video games market.
Shares of Chinese gaming stocks slid in pre-market trading in the United States with NetEase falling over 6 percent and mobile game publisher Bilibili dropping 3 percent.
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