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Chinese mobile games are spreading around the globe

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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2016 was a year in which Chinese mobile games became popular around the globe. A total of 84 games from Chinese publishers made it into the top 1,000 rankings globally, compared with 45 a year ago. That’s an 80 percent increase.

The data was collected by Cheetah Mobile’s Cheetah Global Lab and Libra. Cheetah Global Lab previously published a report on the rankings of Chinese apps and games abroad in early 2016.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.