Posts Tagged: online gaming


China online gaming market 2013

China’s Top 6 Online Gaming Companies Pulled in Over $2 Billion in Q1

Now that everyone has posted their first quarter financials for this year we can see how much China’s web giants are making out of gam...

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  • May 30, 2013
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Four Reasons Online Games Block Chinese IPs

As I’ve said before, being a gamer in China isn’t always fun. Chinese publishers’ censorship of popular foreign games like...

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  • March 15, 2013
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Game On! China’s YY Ready to Hit NASDAQ, Will Debut at $10.50 to Raise $82 Million

Ending an eight-month drought of Chinese IPOs, the gaming community YY (NASDAQ:YY) is about to hit the tickers at the start of trading in Ne...

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  • November 21, 2012
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China’s Gaming Community YY Launches US IPO Roadshow, Looks to Raise $97 Million

Chinese gaming community portal YY has really got its IPO roadshow rolling, and has filed new documents at the US SEC. The filings reveal th...

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  • November 8, 2012
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Qeon Interactive Launches Heva Online in Indonesia with Pop Group CherryBelle

Indonesian game publisher Qeon Interactive officially released its second online game called “Heva Online” recently in Indonesia. Korean...

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  • October 5, 2012
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No Crysis for Crytek as it Opens Shanghai Studio

The German games studio Crytek, makers of the CryEngine that powers its online titles like Crysis and Warface, is setting up a new studio in...

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  • August 8, 2012
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Report: China’s Gaming Biz Brings in $3.93 Billion, Mobile Gaming Not So Much

A brand-new report on China’s gaming industry shows that the whole sector – covering PC and mobile online games and also single-...

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  • July 26, 2012
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Tencent Takes Stake in Epic Games, Makers of Unreal Engine

As regular readers will know, Tencent (HKG:0700) is China’s online gaming king, in everything from casual games to MMOs, and by an eve...

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  • June 19, 2012
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How Startup UniPin Hopes to Solve Payment Hassles for Indonesian Gamers

How Startup UniPin Hopes to Solve Payment Hassles for Indonesian Gamers

UniPin is a four-year-old Indonesian payment startup that aims to make payment for online games easier. It has around 30 staff working on Un...

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  • May 22, 2013
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China Will Develop Its Own Criteria for Diagnosing Game Addiction

It’s no secret that China has a problem with gaming addiction. OK, every country has problems with gaming addiction, but some people i...

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  • February 20, 2013
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Nexon Gets the Nod From Valve for DOTA 2 Launch in Japan and Korea

Korean games publisher Nexon (TYO:3659) has announced today that it’s bringing the hit game DOTA 2 to Japan and South Korea. The deal ...

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  • November 8, 2012
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Chinese Gaming Portal YY Shoots For US IPO

The Chinese gaming and downloads portal YY.com has taken its first step towards a US IPO – despite the frosty conditions for Chinese s...

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  • October 16, 2012
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Game Over? Chinese Gaming Execs Crunch Numbers, Prove Qihoo’s High ARPU

The jabs and lunges are coming thick and fast in the verbal boxing match between the short sellers Citron Research and the Chinese tech exec...

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  • September 13, 2012
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Olleh4U Brings Classic MMOPRG DarkEden to Indonesia

Last month, the new Indonesian games publisher Olleh4u released the classic DarkEden in Indonesia. DarkEden is an online, horror-themed MMOR...

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  • August 3, 2012
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Report: Asia Now Has 1 Billion Web Users, And This is What They Do Online

Asia now has more than one billion internet users – or 1.016 billion, to be precise – who amount to 46 percent of the world̵...

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  • July 10, 2012
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Tencent’s Online Gaming Dominance Grows as Market Expands to $1.78 Billion

A seasonal survey of China’s online gaming market by Analysys International reveals some stellar growth up to the end of 2012 Q1 ̵...

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  • May 25, 2012
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