NetEase Archives - Page 5 of 8

Sensor Tower: Knives Out is a mobile battle royale monster despite U.S. ignoring it

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 10, 2019
1 min

You probably know about Fortnite and PUBG, and how each battle royale game has successfully launched mobile versions. But according to market analyst Sensor Tower, they...

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Second Dinner has funding! And an office!

Ben Brode’s Second Dinner orders a Marvel license and $30 million from NetEase

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 3, 2019
3 min

We now know what former Hearthstone bigwigs Ben Brode and Hamilton Chu are feasting on for their Second Dinner — $30 million from NetEase...

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China is a massive gaming market, but regulatory headwinds are causing problems.

China thaws game-license freeze with 80 new approvals

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 2, 2019
2 min

China is finally permitting new games to begin earning revenue there for the first time since March. The country issued 80 licenses to primarily...

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Vainglory goes cross platform in early 2019.

Vainglory goes cross platform with Windows and Mac in early 2019

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 3, 2018
4 min

Super Evil Megacorp said that Vainglory, the company’s mobile-based multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) title, is going cross platform on Windows and the Mac...

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Diablo: Immortal is a co-development project between Blizzard and NetEase

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 3, 2018
1 min

Blizzard Entertainment is making Diablo: Immortal with Chinese mobile developer NetEase, senior game producer Joe Hsu told GamesBeat during an interview at BlizzCon 2018...

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Hilmar Veigar Pétursson interview — Why CCP thinks Iceland and South Korea are a good mix

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 6, 2018
8 min

Hilmar Veigar Pétursson has worked at Eve Online maker CCP Games, Iceland’s biggest game studio, for 18 years, and he has been CEO since 2004. Today,...

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Nostos is an open-world VR RPG that sure looks like Sword Art Online

Posted byby Jason Wilson
August 27, 2018
2 min

I’m a simple man. I love beautiful, cel-shaded worlds; role-playing games; and fighting monsters online with friends. Similar in many ways to Sword Art...

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Improbable gets $50 million from China’s NetEase to engineer giant game worlds

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 26, 2018
3 min

British game infrastructure company Improbable keeps doing the improbable. Today, the company says it has raised an additional $50 million in funding from Chinese...

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Inside creator Dino Patti sells stake in Jumpship to China’s NetEase

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 19, 2018
2 min

NetEase has acquired a minority stake in the independent game studio Jumpship, which was started by game maker Dino Patti and film animator Chris...

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Identity V’s 4-on-1 survival horror launches on Android

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 11, 2018
1 min

NetEase’s horror-themed mobile game Identity V launched globally on iOS devices last week after racking up millions of downloads in China. Today, the free...

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