Niko Partners attended the 17th ChinaJoy digital entertainment expo and conference in Shanghai this year. 2019 was a record year for attendance with 364,700 entries during the 4-day event, over 10,000 more than last year. Niko Partners analyst Darang S. Candra gave a speech entitled ‘Global Esports: The Way to the Mass Market’ at the conference, [...]
Niko attended the WCG 2019 Grand Finals, which took place in Xi’an China July 18-22. The event, which was attended by more than 120,000 people, included not only the tournament of 144 finalists out of 40,000 contestants that started the season (including fan favorites, such as Sky and Moon and Neeb), but also an esports conference [...]
Niko Partners, represented by Darang Candra, Niko's analyst and multi-country manager, who is based in Southeast Asia, was invited to the Indonesian Creative Economy Agency (BEKRAF) Game Prime 2019 that was held on July 13-14 at Balai Kartini in Jakarta. On July 13-14, BEKRAF Game Prime, the biggest annual gaming event in Indonesia was held at [...]
Niko Partners, represented by Darang Candra, Niko's analyst and multi-country manager, who is based in Southeast Asia, was invited to the Indonesian Creative Economy Agency (BEKRAF) Game Prime 2019 Press Conference that was held on July 5 at BEKRAF's office in Jakarta. BEKRAF Game Prime is the biggest annual gaming event in Indonesia which will be [...]
Niko Partners attended E3 again this year to discover the latest and greatest gaming products and trends for this year and beyond. One of the highlights was catching a glimpse of Shigeru Miyamoto, the legendary Nintendo creative force. Nintendo’s recent announcement of plans to launch Switch in China was exciting, and seeing him in person was [...]
Tencent is a Chinese technology conglomerate founded in 1998. It is one of the top 10 public corporations globally, by market cap, and is one of the world’s largest venture capital and investment firms. Tencent’s success is at least partially attributable to WeChat and QQ, which are two of the largest social messaging platforms globally (despite [...]
NetEase is a Chinese internet technology company that provides online services across content, community, communication and commerce. It is the 2nd largest gaming company in China, by revenue, and the 5th largest game publisher in the world. NetEase is known for its high quality self-developed IP and for localizing hit foreign games from Blizzard (NetEase and [...]
Tencent has officially stopped operating PUBG Mobile: Exciting Battleground and PUBG Mobile: Full Ahead in China, and is prompting the 150 million monthly active PUBG Mobile users to download a newly launched self-developed battle royale title, very similar to PUBG, called Game for Peace, which received a license in April and hence can be monetised immediately. [...]
"Surviving China's Gaming Market" with Greg Pilarowski, Founder of Pillar Legal, Taewon Yun, GM, Global Publishing at Super Evil Megacorp, Andrew Tang, Chief Business Officer at GAMEPOCH and moderated by Lisa Cosmas Hanson of Niko Partners
China’s State Administration of Press and Publication (SAPP) held a conference on April 10th to communicate new rules and regulations regarding game publication in China. The SAPP was formed in April 2018 as the new gaming regulator in charge of game approvals in the country. Game publishers are required to submit games for content and monetisation [...]
