SHANGHAI - Tencent Holdings on Tuesday (Aug 5) said it would introduce new measures to reduce minors' access to and time spent on its Honour of Kings&nbsp;game, a move it plans to eventually roll out to its full games line-up.

Players under the age of 12 will be prohibited from spending money in the game, and time restrictions on minors will also be tightened from 1.5 hours to one&nbsp;hour on non-holidays, and from three&nbsp;hours to two&nbsp;hours on holidays, Tencent said in a statement posted on one of its official WeChat accounts.

The announcement came shortly after Tencent and Honour of Kings&nbsp;were criticised in a Chinese state media article that described online gaming as "spiritual opium" and sent the company's shares tumbling.

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SHANGHAI - Tencent Holdings on Tuesday (Aug 5) said it would introduce new measures to reduce minors' access to and time spent on its Honour of Kings game, a move it plans to eventually roll out to its full games line-up. Players under the age of 12 will be prohibited from spending money in the game, and time restrictions on...

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