China’s Youzu Interactive buys German online game developer Bigpoint for $89.7M

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 22, 2016
Updated June 19, 2025
2 min

Chinese game publisher Youzu Interactive has acquired German game developer Bigpoint for up to 80 million euros, or $89.68 million. The deal is one more sign of how the $99.3 billion game business has gone global and Chinese publishers are using their financial power to become players on the global stage.

China is important to Hamburg-based Bigpoint. Last year, it partnered with Tencent to take its free-to-play online game Drakensang Online to the Chinese market. The aim of that partnership was to take the fantasy online role-playing game with 29 million players to an even larger global market.

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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.