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
Remote Working
"The future of remote work is going to be hybrid," says Yodo1 AI team leader Christopher Dossman
"Imagine teleporting instantly from a crowded, busy office to a secluded mountain retreat or an exciting city."
Drive By
Sports and driving games account for 4.5% of iOS games revenue in the US
Japan is the most lucrative market for the category
Pgc Digital
Tencent generates $18.4 billion in Q3 2020
Online games revenue grew 45 per cent year-on-year
This Week In Asia
This Week in Asia: G-STAR unveils 2020 speaker line-up, Honor of Kings hits 100m DAU, and PUBG pulled in India
Our roundup of top stories from the region
Yodo1
Yodo1’s guide to publishing your mobile game in China, part 2: content and system changes
Part two of Yodo1's short series on how to publish in China
An Imposter!
Among Us clone storms to the top of the charts in China
Werewolf Among us was released on October 28th
Hdc
Discover how to break into China's app market with the Huawei Developer Webinar on November 9th
The Huawei Developer Webinar will feature representatives from successful Chinese developers and partners, including Tencent, iDreamSky, Jinke and Feiyu
The Genshin Impact
An analysis of Genshin Impact’s mobile success and how it could grow even bigger
Kalle and Erno from Gamerefinery dig into the global RPG sensation
Crossing The Streams
Game streaming revenues in China set to skyrocket to $4.5bn following platform merger
Huya and DouYu's merger agreement will create a streaming behemoth
This Week In Asia
This Week in Asia: Dragalia Lost nears $150m global revenue and Honor of Kings is September's top earning title
Keep up to date with the hottest stories and developments from Asia
Yodo1
Yodo1’s guide to publishing your mobile game in China, part 1: ISBN, copyright, and taxes
Part one of Yodo1's short series on how to publish in China
This Week In Asia
This Week in Asia: Huya and DouYu merger, Com2uS acquisition and Pakistan's TikTok block
Our roundup of the latest news and updates from Asian territories
This Week In Asia
This Week in Asia: Genshin Impact generates $60m in revenue while Voodoo preps to launch titles in China
Our collection of the latest news and stories from Asia
Welcome To China
Voodoo's titles are launching in China through The9
"Through our strategic cooperation with Voodoo to jointly publish and operate a variety of casual games in China, we can leverage the popularity of high-profile game IPs in the Chinese market"
Shall Not Be Named
Genshin Impact prohibits players from saying "Taiwan" and "Hong Kong" via in-game chat
There are strict rules that Chinese studios must abide by
Shake Up
Tencent's Chinese iOS game revenue drops $125 million as Lingxi and Lilith see strong growth
Trends in the world's largest market