Categories Posted inin Business To succeed in China, game developers must consider monetization first Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 19, 2015 8 min Jeff Lyndon of iDreamSky tells how Western and Chinese game developers differ. Continue Reading 8 min
Categories Posted inin Business Tencent widens its position as the world’s largest game company Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 14, 2015 2 min Online and mobile game revenue continue to grow at a fast pace. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Mobile studio Pocket Gems gets a minority investment from Tencent to move into China Posted byby GamesBeat May 13, 2015 2 min Tencent to benefit from Pocket Gems' Western roots. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Android games will make more money than iOS games by 2018 thanks to China Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 4, 2015 2 min But even as Android surges past iOS, Google won't fully benefit from that. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business The Kardashian effect: Tencent pays $126M for 15% of Glu Mobile Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 29, 2015 1 min Chinese giant buys a stake in the game publisher that made Kim Kardashian: Hollywood mobile game. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Gaming’s top 25 public companies generated $54.1B in revenue last year Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 20, 2015 2 min Nearly every gaming sector has a representative in the top 10 publicly traded companies except for Web-based social apps. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business QuizUp morphs into WeQuiz to take on the mammoth Chinese market Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 15, 2015 2 min China's most popular game is a localized version of QuizUp, the popular 1-on-1 trivia app from the West. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Germany’s Bigpoint partners with Tencent to take Drakensang Online to China Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 30, 2015 3 min Tencent will publish the fantasy game with 29 million players in mainland China. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Tencent revenues grew 24 percent in Q4, lowest pace in seven years Posted byby GamesBeat March 18, 2015 1 min Tencent Holdings reported earnings today that included revenue figures that seemed to indicate the Chinese social networking and video game giant’s meteoric growth was slowing. In... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business China’s mobile game market is getting hotter — but winter may be coming Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 11, 2015 10 min Mobile game startups expect big valuations, and it's getting more expensive to acquire new titles. Failure rates are sure to rise. Continue Reading 10 min