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NetEase raises fears it is unloading its overseas game properties, hurting U.S. gaming

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Chinese game publisher NetEase raised fears with recent moves that it is unloading as much as all of its overseas holdings in U.S. game companies and elsewhere due to rising costs and other reasons.

Such a move, which coincidentally is happening at the same time as China’s retaliation to U.S. tariffs, could send earthquakes through the global gaming industry and hurt U.S. game companies in particular. However, once contacted by GamesBeat about these fears, NetEase denied it is dismantling its far-flung investments and overseas game studios.

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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.