Fortnite is shutting down in China
After more than two years of testing, Fortnite is shutting down in China on November 15. The game never officially launched in that territory...
Tilting Point uses Huya to take SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off to China
Mobile game publisher Tilting Point has partnered with livestreaming platform Huya to take SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off to mainland China. As a top game streaming...
Zynga plans to launch Merge Dragons mobile game in China
Zynga said that it plans to launch Merge Dragons in China, and it has received some important approvals for doing so. China’s regulators will...
Niko Partners: China’s game market will hit $55B and 781M gamers by 2025
China’s game market will reach $55 billion and 781 million gamers by 2025, according to two new reports by market researcher Niko Partners. Niko...
Apple purges 39,000 game apps from China store to meet year-end licence deadline
(Reuters) — Apple removed 39,000 game apps from its China store Thursday, the biggest removal ever in a single day, in keeping with a...
Niko Partners: 75% of China’s 720 million gamers live outside the biggest cities
Seventy-five percent of China’s 720 million gamers live outside the biggest cities, according to a new study by market researcher Niko Partners. Niko found...
Trump bans U.S. transactions with TikTok and WeChat starting September 20
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled sweeping bans on U.S. transactions with China’s ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok, and Tencent,...
Apple has removed almost 42,000 games so far in App Store licensing purge in China
To comply with Chinese law, Apple has removed nearly 42,000 games from the App Store in China since July 1 because these apps didn’t...
15,000 games removed from Apple’s App Store in China ahead of registration deadline
Unlicensed mobile games are dropping like flies from the Apple App Store as China’s deadline for registration approaches on Friday. At the request of...
COVID-19 could accelerate the ‘maturity of Chinese players’ in the free-to-play market
The free-to-play market is gigantic worldwide, including the hundreds of millions of players within China. Nielsen’s SuperData Research Group found that free-to-play games revenue...