Atomico has done research about the growth of Europe and China in games.
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Atomico: Europeans are seizing share in fast-growing China mobile game market

The Europeans are heading East. A new report from venture capital firm Atomico has found that European game companies doubled their share in the Chinese mobile game market from 2014 to 2016.

European game company revenues grew nine times from $28 million in 2014 to $254 million in 2016. That’s a relatively small slice of the Chinese mobile game market, according to research culled from Atomico, App Annie, CB Insights, Unity Technologies, and S&P Global.

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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.