War Robots returns to China in My.Games/iDreamSky partnership
War Robots has teamed up with Chinese publisher iDreamSky to bring War Robots back to the Chinese market. Amsterdam-based My.Games has teamed with third-party...
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...
GamesBeat Summit Digital: China’s game market is still strong but unpredictable
This year GamesBeat Summit Digital is going to be digital online-only. And it’s time to introduce our next panel and our great lineup of speakers:...
China is approving more foreign games, but not so many American ones
China has always been a hard market to crack for non-Chinese game companies. But the regulatory approval of games imported into China has started...
China’s iDreamSky pays $10M for majority stake in Silicon Valley game startup Rumble Entertainment
The acquisition gives Chinese company a footing in Western markets.
Western developers may bag just a 20% revenue share in China — and it may be worth it
Western developers publishing mobile games in China may wind up with revenue shares that could be as low as 20 percent — or even...
The DeanBeat: The best nuggets from a summer of game leader interviews
Disclosure: The organizers of ChinaJoy paid my way to Shanghai. Our coverage remains objective. One of the best things about my job is talking...
To succeed in China, game developers must consider monetization first
Jeff Lyndon of iDreamSky tells how Western and Chinese game developers differ.
In Tree Story mobile game, you nurture virtual seedlings and plant trees in the real world
Zig Zag Zoom's goal is to get gamers to do good.
China’s mobile game market is getting hotter — but winter may be coming
Mobile game startups expect big valuations, and it's getting more expensive to acquire new titles. Failure rates are sure to rise.