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As we all know, giant Chinese tech company Tencent has its hands and fingers on every tech pie worldwide. Chief among them is Epic and Riot Games, as the conglomerate has stakes in both companies. A new Reuters report states that Tencent Holdings is talking with the United States' Committee on Foreign Investment since late 2020 to make sure it c...
Chinese Overwatch League’s Chengdu Hunters, Guangzhou Charge, Shanghai Dragons, and Hangzhou Spark have allegedly announced that they will refuse to participate in any activities including Seoul Dynasty’s main DPS, Saebyeolbe. According to Dot Esports, this comes after controversial comments were made on Saebyeolbe’s stream ...
Ubisoft and Tencent are working together on an official collaboration, with the Chinese version of Just Dance on Nintendo Switch crossing over with battle royale game Peacekeeper Elite (which is only available in China). According to video games industry analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, this is an example of how Tencent is trying to integrate it...
Play will have no limits in China soon enough. During the PlayStation China live stream event today, the company announced that the PS5 console (regular and digital edition) will be out in Mainland China this 15th May. The units will cost 3,899 and 3,099 yuan respectively. If you are in China, you can pre-order the consoles starting 29th April, ...
Talk about a major changing of the guard. Jeff Kaplan, the game director of Blizzard's team-based shooter Overwatch and beloved face of the game, is leaving Blizzard. Here's his parting message: i am leaving Blizzard Entertainment after 19 amazing years. it was truly the honor of a lifetime to have the opportunity to create worlds and her...
Chinese developer Perfect World Games has announced Code Name X, which will be the first mobile spinoff of the popular Persona 5 franchise (which so far already includes three games; 2017's Persona 5, 2018's Persona 5 Dancing In Starlight and 2021's Persona 5 Scramble). This was confirmed by renowned video games industry analyst Daniel Ahmad ...
First, it's the KFC console that acts as an air fryer. Now, the chicken-frying corporation is going to assimilate into gacha games. Turns out Mihoyo, the folks behind Genshin Impact, will be teaming up with KFC for a chicken bucket promotion in China (via Twitter's Zeniet). Yep, that's how big Genshin Impact is in the region. https://twit...
Genshin Impact is one of the most popular games right now. What's not to like? It has addicting combat and it's free to play to boot. In fact, it's so popular that a local broadcasting news channel in Malaysia used one of the background music (BGM) the game developed by Chinese developer miHoYo. It's only used for several minutes during a segmen...
We still don't know much about Apex Legends Mobile, despite being initially announced back in 2019. However, EA teased in 2020 that they were working with a partner in China on the mobile version of the popular free-to-play battle royale game. We might finally know who they were talking about back then. According to multiple sources (via IGN Ind...
Remember that epic-looking third-person action game unveiled by Chinese developer Game Science last year? Well, they have released a brand new gameplay trailer for Black Myth Wukong to celebrate the Lunar New Year 2021's Year Of The Ox. According to the trailer, it doesn't feature any story content, but it does showcase even more delicious gamep...
The Devil May Cry Pinnacle Of Combat mobile game was initially announced a whopping four years ago in 2017. Developed by Chinese developer Yunchang Games and officially sanctioned by Capcom, more news has finally arrived. According to video game industry analyst Daniel Ahmad, Devil May Cry Pinnacle Of Combat will launch in China on 11 June 2021....
Nintendo and Tencent have announced that they have shipped more than one million Nintendo Switch consoles in China. This is about a year and more after the hybrid console officially launched in China back in December 2019, about two years later than the rest of the world. According to Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad (via Reuters), these offic...
It's been more than a year since Call Of Duty Mobile launched worldwide in October 2019. However, it only officially launched in China in October 2020. Despite that, it has already generated US$14 million to date in that country alone. More impressively, this also means that Call Of Duty Mobile has managed to generate a whopping US$644 milli...
Chinese billionaire Lin Qi has died on Christmas Day 2020 at the age of 39. According to Shanghai police (via BBC), Qi's cause of death was determined to be poison. Lin Qi was the chairman and CEO of games developer Yoozoo, best known for the Game Of Thrones Winter Is Coming strategy mobile game and the League Of Angels MMORPG franchise. Acc...
Tencent has acquired Leyou Technologies for a whopping US$1.5 billion deal. It was signed-off by Leyou shareholders on 11 December 2020 and finalised today. Weirdly enough, Leyou Technologies was previously a chicken processing company. It only started to enter the world of videogames by acquiring a majority stake in Warframe developer Digital ...
(Updated on 16 December 2020) In a bizarre turn of events, GOG has suddenly revealed that Devotion won't be coming to the platform after all. They cite the reason for doing so "after receiving many messages from gamers". It's unclear what that exactly means for now, but it's possible that GOG is referring to complaints made by gamers from C...
Ubisoft has announced the Immortals Fenyx Rising post-launch plan, which includes free in-game events, weekly dungeon challenges, daily quests, and a season pass. Owners of the season pass will also receive a bonus quest; When the Roads Get Rocky, at launch. The Immortals Fenyx Rising Season Pass includes three narrative-based DLCs: ...
Tencent has launched its streaming app, Tencent Video, on Nintendo Switch in China. Tencent Video is a video streaming app like that of Netflix or Disney Plus, offering a wide variety of local and international streaming content. https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1323916212548620289 This move by the conglomerate is a huge one, considering...
Virtual YouTuber agency Cover Corp have announced that VTubers Akai Haato and Kiryu Coco will be suspended for three weeks from any livestreaming activities. Why? According to the official statement: "It was determined that both had divulged confidential YouTube channel analytics information on their respective live streams, used said dat...
After watching the trailer for the movie and looking at all the promotional material, I initially expected that Monster Run would be like a Chinese version of Ghostbusters or Men In Black. I was wrong, however, when the result was anything but that. Instead, Monster Run ultimately feels closer in tone and structure to that of the young adult mo...
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