腾讯收购英国游戏开发商Frontier9%的股权

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.

腾讯(Tencent)收购了英国唯一上市电子游戏开发商Frontier Developments的9%的股权。在电子游戏沉迷引发国内监管反弹之后，这家中国科技集团尝试开拓欧美市场。

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1770万英镑入股Frontier Developments之际，腾讯正打算在美国和西欧推出其爆款电子游戏《王者荣耀》。此前，由于受到当局的批评，腾讯被迫在国内对青少年玩该款游戏的时间做出了限制。

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将利用这次交易在中国市场拓展业务。2015年，中国结束了为期15年的游戏机销售禁令，之后，Frontier的游戏变得越来越受欢迎。2000年时中国政府禁止了电子游戏机的销售，把它们称为“电子海洛因”。