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Rush of Heroes tests if a Chinese mobile hit can work in the U.S.

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Chinese mobile role-playing game I am MT2 has been downloaded more than 70 million times. Now Firefly Games has redesigned it for the U.S. market and will launch it in the West under the name Rush of Heroes.

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Rush of Heroes

The move is part of a plan to identify another billion-dollar opportunity in mobile games, which is expected to be a $30 billion market in 2015. Michael Zhang, the chief executive of Firefly Games in Los Angeles, said in an email that I am MT2 has a lot going for it in Asia, and now the big test is whether this content will be big in the U.S.

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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.