Cracking Down
Tencent stock falls by $60 billion following criticism from state media
Honor of Kings set to be implemented with new constraints
Survive And Trade
NetEase soft-launches survival shooter Lost Light
Available on Google Play in New Zealand, Australia, Germany and the UK
Seeking Head Of Studio
Riot Games set to open new studio in China
The League of Legends creator plans to expand its reach
Super Hire
10 Supercell jobs to apply for this week
Job vacancies from several of Supercell’s offices
Dead Sales
Dead Cells mobile has surpassed two million units in China
Five months after launching in the country
Pgc Digital #7
PGC Digital: How unceasing QA testing increases mobile game profitability
WeTest’s Connie Fu and Gunther Gong explain the importance of continued QA testing
Crazy
CrazyLabs partners with Huawei to bring four new games to AppGallery
The move follows the success of previous titles added to the marketplace
Making Of
Why NetEase believes Frostpunk is different to every other game on the market
NetEase producer Chao Luo on bringing the PC giant to mobile
Face The Consequences
Tencent rolls out facial recognition to restrict children gaming at night
The system will lock young users out of games late in the evening
Rabbids Galore
China approves 43 games including Black Desert Mobile, Sonic Olympics and Rabbids Adventure Party
Marvel Duel, Mario Rabbids, Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed and more
Strong Performance
Update: Konami is working with Tencent's TiMi Studios to bring Contra Returns to the West
Debuted in China in June 2017
China In Your Hands
Battle of Balls meets Transformers in Chinese crossover
Yodo1 is taking some of the west's most popular brands into the Chinese mobile games market
No Slowing Down
Honor of Kings tops global revenue for third consecutive month
$264.5 million from player spending
Multiplayer Metaverse
233 Playground - the power of the platform
MetaApp looks to offer multiplayer titles a key to China
Star Power
Supercell's secret for growing Brawl Stars to a $1 billion success
"We hit our all-time daily active user record just a few months ago!"
$447 Million
Sina Corp is looking at acquiring an 18% stake in Yoozoo Games
Encouraged by games growth under COVID-19 pandemic
Honor At Stake
Tencent facing lawsuit over 'inappropriate content' in Honor of Kings
"The game characters have tampered with the image of historical figures…"
Ti(c)k Tok
ByteDance CEO and co-founder Zhang Yiming announces departure
Fellow co-founder Liang Rubo to step up
Dark Horse
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby storms mobile revenue chart for April 2021, Honor of Kings still top
CyberAgent developed title launched in February 2021
Got Your Number
China announces a new playtime logging system for all gamers
CCP tightening the screws
Score For Foreign Games?
Master the Meta: Do new Chinese regulations spell trouble or opportunity?
China market entry consultant Owen Soh breaks it down
Review Power
CCP further clamps down on Chinese game releases with new approval process
Game Evaluation and Rating Guidelines now live
Pgc Digital #6
PGC Digital: China will be 32% global games revenue in 2021
"China's gaming market is growling larger and larger"
Welcome To The Family
ByteDance snaps up Chinese developer C4games
Via subsidiary Nuverse
Up Close And Persona
Perfect World is bringing Persona to mobile
Confirmed for release in China
Milestone
After 500 million hypercasual downloads in China, Ohayoo looks to go global
Looking to expand to the global market
Making Bank
Three Kingdoms Tactics hits $1 billion in lifetime revenue
96% of player spending is from China
Welcome To China
Supersonic Studios expands to bring hypercasual to China
Going global with extra bonuses
Chasing Cats
Tom and Jerry: Chase soft-launches in Japan and South Korea
NetEase decline to comment on future
Thank You, Next
China approves League of Legends: Wild Rift, Super Mario Party, Diablo Immortal and 30 other games
Pokémon Quest and Rayman Legends also all make the cut
New Partnership
Tencent Games forms strategic partnership with RedMagic
"The in-depth cooperation between Tencent Games and RedMagic has very similar goals"
Indie Spotlight
How Stacky Dash utilised TikTok to achieve 100,000 downloads a day
"The biggest challenge is acknowledging that success is the exception and failure is the norm"
Game On
Chinese games regulators gave approval to 1,411 games last year
1,311 were domestic games while 97 were imported
This Week In Asia
This Week in Asia: Nintendo Switch hits 1m sales in China, Apple's App Store purge, and Honor of Kings' revenue reign
All of the hottest stories from the region
Switch It Up
The Nintendo Switch hits one million official sales in China
The number is higher when grey markets are included
Outta Here
Apple removed 48,000 games from the Chinese App Store last year
Due to them not having an ISBN
Entering China
Pixel Federation enters Chinese market with Diggy's Adventure
"We are very excited to bring our most popular game to Chinese players and we hope to steal their hearts"
Imposter
Among Us clone 'Werewolf Among Us' accumulates 663k lifetime downloads, 100k in a single day
International version 'Murder Party' picks up 19,000 downloads too
Put 'em Up
Call of Duty: Mobile fires through $14 million in its Chinese launch week
The game has generated $644 million in lifetime revenue
Getting The Boot
Apple purges 39,000 titles from its Chinese App Store
As a result of apps not having a license
Getting The Boot
Apple is preparing to remove more apps from the Chinese App Store
Continuing from the ISBN issues earlier this year
Free Falling
Human: Fall Flat hits two million Chinese sales in six days
It shot to the top of the charts
Coming Of Age
China introduces a new age-rating system for games
The categories are eight-plus, 12-plus and 16-plus
Falling Upwards
Human Fall Flat mobile soars to top spot in China following release
The Curve titled released in the region with support from X.D. Network and 505 Games
Mixing It Up
The infinite variation of top grossing nijigen-themed mobile RPGs laid bare
Crunching the data with App Annie
Switch It Up
Nintendo beats PlayStation and Xbox as it shifts 1.3 million Switch's in China this year
"When compared to Microsoft and Sony, Nintendo has the best chance to seize the China market"
Back On Track
The games market in China is back on track after a quietly impressive 2020
Nativex's Alexander Janssens comments on the resurgence of China's mobile industry
Entering China
Roblox given the go ahead to enter China
42 games have been given a government license
233
233 Playground - the first step for your game in China
MetaApp's platform can help you navigate publishing hurdles in Asia
Yodo1
Android app stores in China: many stores, one solution
Yodo1 discusses the different app stores in China and how to get listed on them