Giant Interactive
How Jack Ma convinced a Chinese game company to adopt ‘wolf culture’
Giant Interactive’s days of tolerating “rabbits” are over, and the rabbits have Alibaba’s Jack Ma to blame.
C. Custer · · 3 min read
Tencent, Innovation Works cash out on a $434 million acquisition of a company you’ve never heard of
Chinese Universe Publishing and Media Company bought a 100 percent stake in Elex Technology Company for RMB 2.7 billion.
Paul Bischoff · · 2 min read
Chinese gaming company Giant Interactive to go private after $3 billion buyout of shareholders
While Chinese tech titans like Alibaba and Sina Weibo are set to IPO in the US, gaming company Giant Interactive (NYSE:GA) is doing the very opposite. Today, Giant announced a
Steven Millward · · 2 min read
The man responsible for Zhang Yimou’s beautiful action films is working on a game now
Huo Tingxiao, the production and art designer for some of Zhang Yimou’s prettiest movies, is now working on a game at Giant Interactive.
C. Custer · · 2 min readAnother clever Giant promotion: turn in your old ZT Online 2 accounts and items for cash money
Giant Interactive has a reputation for clever game promotions, but giving gamers money might just top them all.
C. Custer · · 1 min readGiant Interactive launches clever Jianghu campaign, may sue trademark violators
Giant Interactive has secured the trademark for Jianghu (江湖), the title of its popular MMOPRPG, and it is proclaiming its ownership throughout China with a clever advertising campaign. China’s citizens
C. Custer · · 2 min readWell, that's one way to get into a closed beta…
There are a lot of enticing games out there right now that are still in closed beta, and if you can’t get an invite code, you can’t play. Gamers have
C. Custer · · 2 min readGiant Interactive announces ZT Online 3D, coming in 2015
Giant Interactive‘s Long Journey MMORPG series (征途, also called ZT Online), has long been a popular game amongst Asian fans of MMOs (although the game was banned in Vietnam last
C. Custer · · 1 min readReport: Manchester United courting Chinese game devs The9, Giant, and NetDragon for branded game
Football fans all over the world know the name Manchester United. And while last year’s champions of England seem to have hit a rough patch under new manager David Moyes,
C. Custer · · 1 min readChina's biggest e-commerce company may be getting into games
If you don’t live in China, you might be forgiven for not having heard of Alibaba, since it doesn’t operate much outside that nation’s borders. But it’s probably the world’s
C. Custer · · 2 min read