Tokyo and Paris game shows canceled, but ChinaJoy goes ahead in August
Two more major video game shows — the Tokyo Game Show and Paris Games Week — have been canceled thanks to the pandemic, but...
Here’s why it’s hard to take a game from China to Europe
SHANGHAI — Lots of Chinese game companies are flooding out of China into the West. Patrick Streppel, chief executive of consulting live operations firm IME...
Kabam’s Kevin Chou on setting a strategy to win in global mobile gaming
Kevin Chou is a young chief executive, but in six swift years, he has grown Kabam into a $400 million free-to-play mobile gaming company with 800 employees.
ChinaJoy in pictures: A sexy, crazy, and uniquely Chinese gaming trade show
SHANGHAI — ChinaJoy, the big game trade show in Shanghai, is a vast visual feast celebrating all things gaming. It draws 250,000 people to Shanghai’s gigantic expo...
Former Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei hired as consultant for Chinese game developer Youzu
SHANGHAI — Here’s a sign of the times. Nobuyuki Idei, former CEO of Sony and a man with a lot of clout, has been...
The DeanBeat: With China, your game strategy has to be ‘go big or go home’
Correction 2:58 p.m. Pacific: Microsoft and Sony were indeed at ChinaJoy, with a more muted presence in the last of the expo halls. –Ed....
Epic’s graphics guru Tim Sweeney predicts augmented reality will eliminate monitors and TVs
SHANGHAI — Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games and a graphics guru for the past 25 years, said in a speech at the...
Tencent focuses on ‘pan entertainment’ strategy for the Internet to go from giant to juggernaut
Tencent's ambitions will take it into more collaborations with -- or competition with -- Hollywood.
Xbox chief hopes Halo: The Master Chief Collection will boost China console sales
Growth for console sales in China may be slow, but Phil Spencer said he is committed to the market.
Chinese government official urges country’s developers to expand worldwide
Regulator also promises more crackdown on piracy.