Categories Posted inin Business Germany’s Bigpoint partners with Tencent to take Drakensang Online to China Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 30, 2015 3 min Tencent will publish the fantasy game with 29 million players in mainland China. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Tencent revenues grew 24 percent in Q4, lowest pace in seven years Posted byby GamesBeat March 18, 2015 1 min Tencent Holdings reported earnings today that included revenue figures that seemed to indicate the Chinese social networking and video game giant’s meteoric growth was slowing. In... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business China’s mobile game market is getting hotter — but winter may be coming Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 11, 2015 10 min Mobile game startups expect big valuations, and it's getting more expensive to acquire new titles. Failure rates are sure to rise. Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business Supersonic sees big growth for ‘rewarded video ads’ in mobile games (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 1, 2015 12 min Gil Shoham of Supersonic talks about video ads and what it takes to survive in mobile gaming today. Continue Reading 12 min
Categories Posted inin Business China’s Tencent moves into Europe with investment in mobile and online game publisher Miniclip (exclusive) Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 18, 2015 2 min Tencent adds Switzerland-based game publisher to its fold. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business App Annie: Guns and advertising dollars led the mobile gaming charge in January Posted byby GamesBeat February 17, 2015 2 min Supercell's Boom Beach and Tencent's We Fire were January's big movers. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Fates Forever mobile game maker Hammer & Chisel raises funding from Benchmark and Tencent Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 10, 2015 2 min Founder Jason Citron wants to use the money to reach a billion hardcore gamers on mobile devices. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business How Space Ape aims to become one of the big hairy brutes of mobile gaming (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 2, 2015 19 min Space Ape has a chance to be one of the big players in mobile games. Will its next game do the trick? Continue Reading 19 min
Categories Posted inin Entertainment Tencent grabs the digital rights to NBA basketball in China Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 30, 2015 2 min The deal enables Tencent to create NBA-themed games. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Call of Duty Online launches public open beta in China after years of development Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 12, 2015 2 min Activision and Tencent launch free-to-play game in a huge potential market. Continue Reading 2 min