Delayed wages, lower profits: Chinese gaming firms fret as approval freeze bites


By Pei LiBrenda Goh

People play online games at an internet cafe in Fuyang, Anhui province, China August 20, 2018. Picture taken August 20, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI: As the maker of family-friendly games like Gardenscapes and Toy Blast, iDreamSky Technology never expected to get caught up in a tangle with Chinese regulators.

But the Shenzhen-based gaming company is enduring an unprecedented wait for over a dozen of its games to be approved for release in China, a situation it fears could impact profits this year.

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