Game plan urgent to stop addiction

TENCENT GAMES announced on Sunday it is piloting a system for its hit mobile game King of Glory that will log out players under the age of 12 if they have played the game for more than a hour in a day. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Monday:

Tencent's mobile game King of Glory is enjoying phenomenal popularity with over 200 million registered players, 36 million of whom are middle and primary school students. With an estimated quarterly revenue of over 12 billion yuan ($1.8 billion), it became the world's most lucrative mobile game in the first quarter of this year, according to reports.

But in the eyes of some teachers and parents, it is no more than a gateway for kids to spend more time in the virtual world during the summer vacation.