FILE PHOTO: Tencent's booth is pictured at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) 2017 in Beijing, China April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo
Shareholders of Tencent Holdings Ltd, the world's biggest videogame company, panicked last week. People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, singled out Honour of Kings, Tencent's biggest game, for an unusually high-profile criticism.
”Poison,” the paper declared of a game played by roughly one in seven Chinese. “Constantly spreading ‘negative energy.'” It linked the game to recent reports in which children allegedly stole money, experienced strokes and even jumped out of a high-rise window due to “addictive” game play.
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