Nostos is an open-world VR RPG that sure looks like Sword Art Online
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...
Improbable gets $50 million from China’s NetEase to engineer giant game worlds
British game infrastructure company Improbable keeps doing the improbable. Today, the company says it has raised an additional $50 million in funding from Chinese...
Inside creator Dino Patti sells stake in Jumpship to China’s NetEase
NetEase has acquired a minority stake in the independent game studio Jumpship, which was started by game maker Dino Patti and film animator Chris...
Identity V’s 4-on-1 survival horror launches on Android
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...
Bungie partners with NetEase, China’s other gaming giant, for its next game
One of the biggest tech companies in China is publishing the next game from Destiny and Halo developer Bungie. The studio posted a blog...
16 predictions for the Chinese and Southeast Asian games industry in 2018
In celebration of 16 years of delivering market intelligence on the Chinese and Greater Southeast Asian digital games industry, we’ve put together 16 predictions...
NetEase is bringing its Chinese sensation mobile RPG Onmyoji to North America
NetEase launched a limited beta in the U.S. and Canada for Onmyoj, a mobile role-playing game for iOS and Android that has already been a hit...
How Jam City CEO Chris DeWolfe sees the freakin’ mobile game world
Chris DeWolfe did OK as a founder of MySpace. But it didn’t turn out to be Facebook. But he can’t complain. DeWolfe is now...
The DeanBeat: The gaming world is flat, but you can tilt it in your direction
TOKYO – I’m third-generation Japanese-American. My grandparents came from Japan as farmers about 100 years ago. I considered it an honor to be able...
NetEase usurps Tencent as the top-grossing mobile publisher in the world
China is the biggest market in the world for mobile gaming, and so it’s not a surprise that the two biggest companies that are...