Delayed Wages, Lower Profits: Chinese Gaming Firms Fret as Approval Freeze Bites

Delayed Wages, Lower Profits: Chinese Gaming Firms Fret as Approval Freeze Bites
Visitors attend the annual Tencent Games Carnival (TGC) in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China on Dec. 2, 2017. Reuters/Stringer
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As a publisher 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.