Aya Lin · · 1 min readIn brief: Tencent pulls PUBG out of China amid regulatory difficulties
- Tencent Holdings announced it will stop offering the test version of its massive online video game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) after waiting over a year for regulatory approval on the game’s monetization, Reuters reports.
- “The testing phase for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds officially ends on May 8. We thank everyone for the support they have given us so far,” said a post on the game’s official Weibo account.
- The post also mentioned the launch of Game for Peace today, a Tencent-licensed game that received monetization approvals from authorities in April this year.
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