騰訊收購英國遊戲開發商Frontier9%的股權

Tencent has bought a 9 per cent stake in the UK’s only listed video game developer, Frontier Developments, as the Chinese technology group attempts to expand in Europe and the US following a regulatory backlash in China over the addictiveness of video games.

騰訊(Tencent)收購了英國唯一上市電子遊戲開發商Frontier Developments的9%的股權。在電子遊戲沉迷引發國內監管反彈之後，這家中國科技集團嘗試開拓歐美市場。

The 17.7m investment in Frontier Developments comes as Tencent plans to roll out its blockbuster video game, Honour of Kings, in the US and Western Europe after it was forced to limit the time children spend playing it in China because of criticism from the authorities.

在以1770萬英鎊入股Frontier Developments之際，騰訊正打算在美國和西歐推出其爆款電子遊戲《王者榮耀》。此前，由於受到當局的批評，騰訊被迫在國內對青少年玩該款遊戲的時間做出了限制。

Frontier will use the deal to expand in China, where its games have become increasingly popular following the end of a ban on game consoles in 2015, after fifteen years. Beijing banned video game consoles in 2000, calling them “electronic heroin”.

Frontier將利用這次交易在中國市場拓展業務。2015年，中國結束了爲期15年的遊戲機銷售禁令，之後，Frontier的遊戲變得越來越受歡迎。2000年時中國政府禁止了電子遊戲機的銷售，把它們稱爲“電子海洛因”。