Data
Despite growth of 73%, iResearch claims the $4 billion Chinese mobile games market is 'maturing'
Estimates Q3 market value at $1.1 billion
Game Connection 2014
How to accelerate your success in the Chinese mobile market
TalkingData's Ibrahim Dai lends a helping hand
Curiouser and curiouser: Shanda CEO steps down with immediate effect
The saga continues
Deal
CMGE gains rights to make Hello Kitty games in China
License to print money?
Investment
Intel Capital puts $28 million into Chinese wearable tech startups
First input from $100 million China Smart Device Innovation Fund
Financials
KongZhong announces special dividend worth $40 million
Buttering up the shareholders
Investment
OurPalm invests $30 million into loss-making subsidiary FingerFun
Moving money around
Alongside new wearables company, Lenovo reveals China-only Google Glass rival
Fits on your spectacles
Xiaomi ships 19 million smartphones during Q3 2014
Shipping out
Animoca closes $10 million joint venture deal for Star Girl franchise
Crosby Capital becomes majority owner
Qihoo 360 targets 30% share of Chinese mobile search within 2 years
Another way to win in app distribution
Video
How Hitcents defeated the pirates and built a business in China
Stuart Westphal's talk from PG Connects Helsinki
Chart Of The Week
Five crazy deals which have inflated the games M&A bubble during 2014
Show me the profits
Video
SkyMobi on targeting the bulk of Chinese mobile gamers who live in third tier cities
Knowledge from PG Connects Helsinki 2014
Video
Chinese mobile gamers want pay-to-win says localisation expert
Knowledge from PG Connects Helsinki 2014
Financials
Shanda to award 8 key staff golden handcuffs worth at least $13 million
Please stay
Financials
Shanda sees Q2 FY14 mobile game sales up 31% to $14 million
Chain Chronicle gives a boost
Video
DeNA on why western best practices don't work in Asia
Kenji Kobayashi on acting local
Rumours
Ovum suggests Alibaba could make a $1.5+ billion move for Tango
What to do with its IPO warchest
Financials
With H1 2014 sales up 71% to $21 million, Feiyu Technology announces Hong Kong IPO plans
Xiamen Haloer+Cairot=IPO
SkyMobi looks to expand its instore reach to over 100,000 operator shops in China
Enabling more pre-installations of the Maopao app store
Deal
Chinese investment group spends $10 million to acquire Star Girl franchise for fashion retail opportunities
Animoca will continue to operate young teen franchise
Deal
SkyMobi brings Battle Towers, Major Mayhem and Dungeon Quest to China
Small file size, big entertainment
Chinese publisher OurPalm says it's making a major investment into Unity
Part of a wider strategic reorg?
Deal
Halfbrick and iDreamsky bring a new version of Fruit Ninja to Tencent's mobile platform
Locked into QQ and WeChat users
Interview
Hoolai on why content is king in the saturated Chinese mobile game market
Although Tencent's help doesn't go amiss either
Jobs
Rumour: Changyou cuts 100 jobs at 17173.com
Looking to reduce staff costs
Jobs
SkyMobi poaches Glu Mobile China's GM to run its game operations
Gio Zhang to expand international sourcing and M&A efforts
Financials
Privatisation of Shanda Games takes another turn as a member resigns its special committee
Another twist in the tale
Financials
Leaked email reports Chukong's August 2014 sales up 130% to $28.5 million
Good news can't wait
Deals
M&A the Chinese way: 5 surprising acquisitions of game companies
Reading between the lines
Deals
Consortium swap: 3 new investors including a textiles company step up to take Shanda Games private
Stranger and stranger
Deal
Hoolai tests the hardcore appetite of WeChat players with War of Immortals
Successful web game goes mobile
Chinese Beaujolais
China to get Ouya games and CMGE looks to rollout out free wifi
Weekly taster from the Middle Kingdom
Financials
Despite having $100 million in the bank, LineKong files for Hong Kong IPO
The rich get richer
Financials
KongZhong's mobile sales boom in FY14 Q2 up 30% to $10.5 million
Has another 5 titles ready to go
Deal
Qihoo 360 signs up Goodgames' Empire: Four Kingdom for China release
First deal of its kind
Financials
Renren sees FY14 Q2 game revenue slide 27% to $15 million
Mind the gap
Deal
Peak Candy Crush delayed as Tencent releases King's top grosser in China
A whole new kingdom opens up
Opinion
China: An opportunity or a threat for indie Korean mobile game developers?
The News Gangnam Style
Opinion
7 reasons why the Chinese mobile games market is a constipated mess for indies
Innovation can not get out
Investment
The wild wild east: Chinese construction company spends $960 million on Family Farm publisher DianDian
FunPlus reboots for more adventures
Financials
Perfect World sees FY14 Q2 sales up 4% to $150 million
DOTA 2 does the business in China
Financials
With 21 games in development, CMGE sees FY14 Q2 sales up 28% to $44 million
All systems go
Financials
Single player casual games drive SkyMobi's FY14 Q2 sales up 32% to $27 million
Net profit up 1,270%
Financials
China's #1 mobile game publisher Tencent generated $487 million in FY14 Q2
Now focusing on 'game portfolio expansion'
Interview
80% of Chinese devs will close in 12 months that's why we're 100% international, say Sphinx
Structural pressures in the world's fastest-growing market
88% of Tencent published games have been #1 on Chinese App Store
Power of a platform with 600 million players
Data
Who knows what? Estimates of the size of Chinese mobile game market differ by $1 billion
How fast is that rocket going?
Chinese Beaujolais
Fishing Joy 3 cast its net, Changyou buys Dolphin Browser and WuShen sold in a smashing deal
Weekly taster from the Middle Kingdom