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Germany’s Bigpoint partners with Tencent to take Drakensang Online to China

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Your game already has 29 million players but you want to grow. So, what do you do? You follow Nixon’s lead and go to China.

German game publisher Bigpoint has partnered with Tencent to take Drakensang Online to the Chinese market. The aim is to take the fantasy online role-playing game with 29 million players to an even larger global market. Under the exclusive partnership, Hamburg-based Bigpoint will publish the game across Tencent’s huge game network in the mainland Chinese market. The deal shows the growing global nature of the gaming business. The online gaming market across Asia alone is expected to grow from $12.9 billion in 2013 to $30.4 billion in 2018, according to market reseacher IDC.

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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.