Major Chinese investment house known to online gamers in the west for its stake in a number of western games, including League of Legends and World of Warcraft.
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Elite Dangerous boss promises Frontier won’t be bought out as Update 11’s release date shifts
With all of the news of video game studio acquisitions that flew around in the month of January, some longtime followers of certain studios...
MMO Business Roundup: The gaming industry reacts to the Ukraine crisis
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business and industry news.
Ukraine: First, there's no way around the news that Russia shelled and...
Nightingale studio Inflexion has been sold to Tencent – and it’s still launching this year
Tencent is apparently continuing its gobbling-up of all the games and studios you're interested in: Improbable just announced it's sold Inflexion Games to Tencent...
Funcom enlists the help of another co-developer to bring the DUNE multiplayer survival title to life
Back in December of last year, a press release from Funcom announced that the developing multiplayer survival sandbox based on the DUNE IP was...
Myth of Empires skirts the Steam DMCA takedown by selling the game directly
Apparently, Myth of Empires developer Angela Game is not going to let a little thing like being taken off of Steam and sued for...
Avatar: Reckoning looks like a mobile MMO with shooter vibes, backed by Disney and Tencent
If you are one of those people who's always wanted an MMORPG based on the movie Avatar and the world of Pandora, well, prepare...
Riot Games lays out five-year plan, partial ownership for employees
Yesterday, Riot Games' Nicolo Laurent released a length letter to workers and gamers, essentially outlining what the next five years of Riot will look...
Snail Games fires back at Myth of Empires’ lawsuit with countersuits of its own
In the middle of last December, Myth of Empires studio Angela Game fired off a lawsuit against Snail Games and Studio Wildcard, demanding that...
China’s continued freeze on new gaming approvals sees 14,000 gaming firms in the country shut down
The fight against the so-called "spiritual opium" of gaming by the Chinese government presses on into the new year. Readers will recall that a...
Remedy and Tencent team up on co-op PvE shooter codenamed Vanguard
Remedy Entertainment isn't a particularly well-known studio around our corner of the gaming world, as the studio is more well-known for single-player games such...
Funcom’s DUNE MMO is still happening, just picked up a co-developer: NUKKLEAR
Yesterday I happened to be working on an article looking back at our predictions for the year when I stumbled across one about Funcom's...
Regulators in China and the UK turn their eyes toward streaming, gaming currency
China isn't content to bulldoze its own local gaming industry by freezing game approvals, blocking kids from gaming outside of tiny windows, and freaking...
Funcom picks up the Conan IP and ‘dozens’ more with latest acquisition
One of the trickier parts of the MMO business is the interplay between IP holders and the companies that make games with those IPs...
Tencent, Netease hit with stock losses amid China’s gaming industry clampdown
If you've been following the gaming industry for a while, you probably remember the big "freezes" that the Chinese government placed on new game...
China’s new kid gaming time regulations are already causing industry trainwrecks
At the end of August, we noted that China was following through on its plan to set extreme limits on minors' gaming time -...
China now limits minors’ gaming time to three hours a week, indicates anti-monopoly policies are forthcoming
The Chinese government is introducing a significant crackdown on gaming for minors as state media has reported that children will only be allowed to...
Krafton’s IPO launch didn’t go to plan thanks to China and Tencent
Yesterday was supposed to be a huge day for Krafton, the South Korean gaming giant behind everything from TERA to PUBG, as it launched...
The Soapbox: Pokemon Unite’s monetization is gross and threatens a competent game
By now, you've probably seen several articles about the poor monetization in Pokemon Unite, often based on Reddit posts or streamer hot takes. Most talk...
Tencent reacts to Chinese state media calling online games ‘spiritual opium’ by adding new restrictions
Young online game fans in China are going to be facing some new restrictions from Tencent-operated games. That's in response to an article from...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Unite is genuinely fun – for new and casual MOBA players
When Pokemon Unite was first announced, I had severe doubts I'd even give it a shot. I know I'm the local Pokemon guy, but there are many games in the...
