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idk, it's reuters and idk if there china reporting has any relation to reality.
Stopping approval of any new games for eight months, is that all games? Certain categories of games? Sounds like it couldn't be that simple or the entire inudstry would crash.
If the bits and peices of news about "video games in China" are all connected, it seems like its online video games with loot box mechanics or daily incentives to try to lock a person in psychologically into the loop.
Good on them, then. I have really, really mixed feelings about media censorship, but if the goal is to limit the harm of gambling I support it. The MediaTM tends to conflate China's attempts to limit the abusiveness of pay2win gaming with outright cultural censorship which really sucks.
There are some legitimately good games that come out of China and I believe a lot of them get some sort of public funding (the ones from smaller devs). The bigger groups tend to just shovel out gatcha trash though, so if this clears the way for more investment in small development teams and culturally relevant or interesting things as those devs who were trapped making gatcha are freed, there could be a Renaissance.
The Financial Times is also reporting the firing of the official. Not sure if they use Reuters as a source. I couldn’t tell from the article.