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China's video games ban

The government cuts children's gaming time to just three hours a week

China announces plans to restrict children to just three hours of video games a week. How will gamers cope and what does it mean for China's booming video games industry? We speak to Rui Ma, China tech watcher and host of the Tech Buzz China podcast, and to games industry analyst Lisa Cosmas Hanson from Niko Partners. Plus the battle over the video game streaming market hots up, with major streaming stars switching from Twitch to YouTube. Can YouTube ever challenge Twitch's dominance? Louise Shorthouse from Ampere Analysis explains. And the 成人快手's cyber security correspondent Joe Tidy tells us about the strange case of a fake Banksy NFT, and why one collector paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for it. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with 成人快手 technology reporter Jane Wakefield.

(Photo: A gamer yawns during an esports tournament in Shanghai, China. Credit: Getty Images)

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Fri 3 Sep 2021 21:06GMT

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