Another step has been made by Chinese government in their crusade against online games. They really mean it and they want the absolute control over the situation as usual. This time they, according to GAPP (General Administration of Press and Publication), accomplished to ban all foreign enterprises, joint ventures and cooperatives out of their online game industry. No foreign business is allowed to engage or act anyhow in Chinese online game cooperations. Same goes for the other way. Chinese cooperations are not allowed to publish or even advertise for foreign games without permission of GAPP. Consequences for those who did not get approvement of GAPP are quite severe and advertiser's websites will be shut down.
Stay tuned for the next episode!