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Blizzard renews agreement with NetEase to bring games back to China

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Blizzard Entertainment announced that its games will return to China this summer thanks to a renewal of its publishing agreement with NetEase Games.

The move represents a thawing of a dispute under the previous administration, as Blizzard is now part of Microsoft Gaming, which acquired Activision Blizard for $68.7 billion last October.

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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.